Moving Out

1962-1984

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

Sid Kaplan

Printer, American

The image is a triptych of three black-and-white photographs. The first panel shows a vintage television set and an office chair on a suitcase in a dimly lit room. The central panel shows an empty room with large windows casting light on a bare floor with debris and window reflections. The rightmost panel features a table with a tea set and candlesticks, a television set on the floor, and furniture in the background. The color palette is monochromatic with shadows and light creating depth. Each panel has bold words "MOVING OUT" at the top and text at the bottom: "FORGOTTEN POSSESSIONS IN JOHN TURNERS FINAL ROOM," "LONG GONE SHADOW OF MARRIAGE ON THIRD AVE LOFT," and "LAST LOOK AT MY PARENTS WOHNZIMMER IN ZURICH."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    3 gelatin silver prints with red acrylic paint

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 50.6 x 121.4 cm (19 15/16 x 47 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.29.1

  • Copyright

    © 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. 147.

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, pp. 283-285.

2004

  • Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2004 - 2005, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, pp. 283-285.

2004

  • Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat., Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.

Inscriptions

LEFT PANEL: lower center verso in graphite: needs spotting / Robert Frank; all by later hands, in graphite: upper left verso: 1021C VI; upper right verso: 1021C VI / LOMH 112; RIGHT PANEL: all by later hands, in graphite: upper right verso: 1022 VI / LOMH 112

Wikidata ID

Q64164063

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