City of London
1951
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23 x 33.6 cm (9 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1991.82.1
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Copyright
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from The Howard Gilman Foundation by NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
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. 44.
2003
"Robert Frank: London/Wales", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2004 - 2005, unnumbered catalogue.
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. 19.
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
Bibliography
1989
Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 43.
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. 404.
1994
Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 79.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat., Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.
Inscriptions
lower right verso in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: lower right verso in blue ink: LONDON BANKER; stamped in black, center verso: GAMMA / PICTURE AGENCY / 33 West 42nd Street / New York 18, N.Y. / L.A. 4-5578 / CREDIT: Robert Frank GAMMA
Wikidata ID
Q64161126