Subway Portrait, 1938-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 27.6 x 21.5 cm (10 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.114.2

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 66.1094; lower center verso: 15

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Minichiello, Kent, Dr. and Mrs.

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.

2000: "World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue reproduction.

2017: "Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1956: i.e. The Cambridge Review 5 (March 1956): n.p.

1966: Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 75 (variant: cropped to include woman on right).

1982: Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 157 (above right).

1991: Greenough 1991, pl. 23.