Caerau Coal Mine, Wales, 1953

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.3 × 32.9 cm (8 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 28.1 × 35.4 cm (11 1/16 × 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

2014.154.29

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in black ink: R. Frank.; lower left: CAERAU COAL MINE WALES; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 390-III; upper right: 390-III / RF.709 [illegible scribbled over] / W8; center right, perpendicular: C.10; lower left: X

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, May 10-July 14, 2003

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

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 16 March 2016 - 19 June 2016

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2003: Robert Frank: London/Wales Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003: 83.

2004: Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat. Tate Modern, London, 2004: 72.