Welsh Miners, 1953

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print mounted on hardboard

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 34.9 x 23.3 cm (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Robert B. Menschel Fund in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.137.8

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; all by later hands: on sticker, upper right verso in graphite: 3032-III / LOMH 41; upper right verso in black ink: M; on sticker, lower center verso stamped in red ink: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / 11 WEST 53RD STREET NEW YORK / _POST-WAR EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY_ / ARTIST: Robert Frank / TITLE: WELSH MINERS / CIRCULATING EXHIBITION NO. / MUSEUM NO. 53.789 / BOX NO. 2

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Exhibition History

1953: Post-War European Photography, Museum of Modern Art, 1953.

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. 48.

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, unnumbered catalogue.

2017: Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

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

1994: Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 84.

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.