Welsh Miners
1953
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Robert Frank
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Gift of Betsy Karel, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
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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.) -
Accession Number
2014.154.15
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Copyright
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Robert Frank, New York; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Betsy Karel, Washington, DC, 2003; gift to NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
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
Wikidata ID
Q64161340