Subway Portrait, 1938-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 12.4 x 18 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

John Wilmerding Fund

Accession Number

1989.11.2

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

upside down, upper left in graphite: 4; lower center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-14 added in graphite; by unknown hand, lower right verso in graphite: 57 (cir cled) Lunn Gallery, N.Y.

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; purchased with donated funds from John Wilmerding by NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Minichiello, Kent, Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

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

1994: George Grosz: Berlin - New York, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1994-1995.

2003: "Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph", Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2003-2004.

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1966: Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 15.

1991: Greenough 1991, pl. 41.