From the Bus, New York

1958

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a street scene in an urban setting. The image depicts a sidewalk area adjacent to a building with large windows. On the ground, there are small metallic objects arranged in a pattern. There is also a box placed against the building with the number '50' prominently displayed, twice. The photograph captures part of a person’s shoe and the corner of their pants, indicating movement. The street is empty of other notable items or signs of activity. The textured surface of the pavement and the smoothness of the wall stand out. The overall impression is of a quiet and momentarily paused urban street setting.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1992.

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. 111.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl.78.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 206.

Inscriptions

all lower left verso: typed on Minneapolis Institute of Arts sticker: No. L64.143.7 (crossed out) / Robert Frank; by later hand, on sticker in graphite: 231-IV; typed on Museum of Modern Art sticker: Robert Frank / From the Bus New York / Photograph / The Photographer; by later hand, on sticker in graphite: 231-IV (circled) / LOMH 77 / RF 242.1

Wikidata ID

Q64161360

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