Caerau, Wales

1953

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of an outdoor landscape scene with industrial structures and hills. The image features uneven terrain covered with patches of grass. In the background, several mounds or hills dominate the scene. Amidst these natural forms, industrial chimneys and structures rise in the distance. The sky above is overcast. The foreground exhibits a rough texture that contrasts with the distant industrial symbols.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 47, as Caerau....

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 40.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, pp. 82-83.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 3051 III; upper center verso in graphite: 42 1/2 cms. / CLYB; upper right verso in graphite: 3051 III / LOMH 40 / W6; lower left verso in graphite: 26 / F13; lower right verso in graphite: B7

Wikidata ID

Q64161143

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