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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Untitled

1989

Robert Frank

Associated Names

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The image displays an arrangement of rectangular and square shapes in an abstract composition. At the top, there is a bundle of papers bound with string, featuring a black-and-white photograph of a person holding the horn of an ox. Below the papers, there is a grid of small pale-colored squares pinned to a dark background. The entire assembly is mounted on a muted lavender board.

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Artwork overview

Medium

mixed media with gelatin silver prints and thermal transfer prints
Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Isabel and Fernando Garzoni, Switzerland, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

overall: 101.9 x 76.5 x 16.8 cm (40 1/8 x 30 1/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Accession Number

1990.103.2
Copyright

© Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Fernando and Isabel Garzoni, Switzerland; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Dr. and Mrs. Fernando Garzoni

Exhibition History

1991

Art for the Nation, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991.

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. 148.

2000

"Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000-2001.

2009

Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, no. 68.

Bibliography

1991

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p. 518.

1994

Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 287.

Wikidata ID

Q64164024

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