Welsh Miners, 1953

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 42.8 × 30.7 cm (16 7/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

sheet: 42.9 × 35.4 cm (16 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Betsy Karel, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2014.154.15

Artists / Makers

Robert Frank (artist) American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Copyright

Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in ink: Robert Frank WALES 1951; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 3033-III / RF-16119 YAJIMA / [T?] [V?]; upper right: RF.677; top right corner: 3033-III / [illegible, scribbled over] / Wg; lower left circled in graphite: M; bottom left corner cross drawn in graphite

Provenance

Robert Frank, New York; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Betsy Karel, Washington, DC, 2003; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Karel, Betsy

Exhibition History

2003: Robert Frank: London/Wales, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 10 May - 14 July 2003.

2004: Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate Modern, London, 28 October 2004 - 23 January 2005; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 8 February - 11 April 2005; Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostifung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland, 3 September - 20 November 2005.

2015: Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

Bibliography

2003: Robert Frank: London/Wales. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003: 97.

2004: Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat. Tate Modern, London, 2004: 77.