End of Dream

1992

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a seascape with rocks and snow. The image consists of three black and white photographs arranged horizontally, depicting a rocky shoreline with patches of snow and calm sea in the background. Above the photographs, there are several small, color images superimposed over the black and white background. These smaller images show various objects and scenes, including a close-up of snow, an abstract form, and possibly a stone or shell, each bordered in different colors with some lines connecting them horizontally across the composition.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    3 gelatin silver prints with 6 internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid SX-70), and green, black and red enamel paint

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank

  • Dimensions

    overall: 49.7 x 121.4 cm (19 9/16 x 47 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.147.8

  • Copyright

    © Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 1996.

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. 146.

1999

  • Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, pp. 267-269.

Inscriptions

on left panel, lower right in black ink: May 1992 Mabou; on right panel, lower right in black ink: Robert Frank

Wikidata ID

Q64161325

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