Hoover Dam, Nevada

1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The image shows a rotary postcard stand displaying various postcards, including images of the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and a nuclear explosion. The color palette is black and white. The postcards are positioned vertically on the stand, with the Grand Canyon postcard on the top rack, the Hoover Dam postcard in the middle, and the nuclear explosion postcard on the bottom. The stand is on a wooden surface, with a partially visible sign reading "Pictorial Tour of the Dam 35" and a vintage car outside seen through a window.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund 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. 72.

2015

  • Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 69.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 168.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: HOOVER-DAM NEVADA 1955; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank.; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: LOMH 69 / RF.280; lower right verso in graphite: X; M (in square)

Wikidata ID

Q64161336

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