Subway Portrait

1938-1941

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Walker Evans' Subway, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.

1991

  • Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.

Bibliography

1966

  • Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 59 (variant: cropped to include more of negative).

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 32.

Inscriptions

center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 66.1120; lower center verso in graphite: 18; lower right verso in graphit e: 828-413

Wikidata ID

Q64171905

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