From the Bus, New York

1958

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The image shows a man walking across a street. He is looking over his right shoulder as he moves forward. The man appears middle-aged, wearing a suit with a coat draped over his right arm. The background shows a city street with buildings and sidewalks. The image is in black and white.

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Artwork overview

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. 112.

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 79.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 207.

Inscriptions

all by later hand, on verso: upper right on masking tape in graphite: RF.228.1 / 250-IV (L) / LOMH 79; all lower left: on masking tape in red felt tip pen: 4" long gouge next to / man's rt.. leg / 5-11-67; typed on Minneapolis Institute of Art sticker: L64.143.5 / Robert Frank; typed on Museum of Modern Art label: Robert Frank / From the Bus New York / Photograph / Lent by the photographer; typed on Museum of Modern Art sticker: Frank / 62.404; lower right on masking tape in red ink: 55 1/2% [?4] (circled)

Wikidata ID

Q64161356

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