1 / 1

download is not available

Two people look out of side-by-side windows in a brick building in this horizontal black and white photograph. The woman on our left has a double chin and a broad chest. She wears a polka-dotted dress and dark shawl or vest, and she leans forward with one hand on the sill. Her face is partially shadowed by a white window blind. An American flag hanging near this window billows across the right two-thirds of the picture, entirely hiding the second person’s head. That person wears a coat buttoned up to a rounded collar. They hold one hand near their chin and the other by their waist. The flag has eight columns of stars. The work is signed and dated in the white margin below: “1955 HOBOKEN” to the left and “Robert Frank” to the right.

Robert Frank

Parade—Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955, printed 1977

Not on View

portfolio Title

The Americans, plate 1

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.7 x 35 cm (8 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Robert B. Menschel Fund, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.82.5

Artists / Makers

Robert Frank (artist) American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

Image Use

This image is unavailable for download.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .
Contact us about image usage .

Copyright

Inscription

lower left in black ink: 1955 HOBOKEN; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank.; lower left verso in black ink: R. Frank. / 1977 Sept.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: RF786-

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Bibliography

1989: Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 52.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p. 406.