Detroit

1955

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

Media Options

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.9 x 21.6 cm (12 15/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.55.2

  • Copyright

    © June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1994.

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. 71.

2009

  • Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 62.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 67.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 168.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Detroit 1955; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: lower right on masking tape in red ink: 77 1/2% 77 (circled); upper left verso in graphite: 3.603-42-II; upper right verso in graphite: RF.218 603-42II B.15 LOMH 67 CAV 6 (circled); lower left verso in graphite: F14

Wikidata ID

Q64161404

You may be interested in

Loading Results