Welsh Miners

1953

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64161084

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