Washington D.C. Inauguration Day

1957

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.6 x 45.6 cm (12 1/16 x 17 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 50.6 cm (16 x 19 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.7.1

  • Copyright

    © June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Robert Frank: Moving Out, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Yokohama Museum of Art; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, 1994-1996, no. 122.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 75.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, pp. 216-217.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Washington D.C. Inauguration Day 1957; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank

Wikidata ID

Q64161419

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