N.Y.C for A.B.

1947

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a group of individuals running uphill towards a large stone structure. The image captures the figures in motion across rough terrain. The camera angle is from behind, focusing on their backs as they move quickly. The large structure in the background appears to be a textured stone surface. The photograph is in black and white, emphasizing the contrast between the figures and the background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Glen Eagles Foundation by NGA, 1992.

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. 11.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 15.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 28.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: RF.271.1 / 1002-II / LOMH 15

Wikidata ID

Q64161414

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