Inscription
signed by artist, lower right below image in black ink: Robert Frank; lower left below image: NYC Bus 1958; on verso, on label affixed to lower left corner, by unknown hand in graphite: 202 I IV RF.732 / Robert’s choice; typed in black ink: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / 11 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK 19, N.Y. / ARTIST: Robert Frank / TITLE: From the Bus New York 1958 / MEDIUM: Photograph / Lent by the Photographer / MUSEUM NO: STORAGE SPACE: / COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS; on stamp affixed to bottom center, typed in black ink: Museum of Modern Art / LOAN; in graphite: 202 I-IV /; in black ink and crossed out in graphite: FRANK / 62.409 / (a)
Provenance
Dr. J. Patrick and Patricia A. Kennedy, Chestnut Hill, MA; gift to NGA, 2014.
Exhibition History
- 1962
- Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 January - 1 April 1962.
- 2012
- I SPY: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1939-2010, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 22 – August 5, 2012
- 2015
- Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016