From the Bus, New York

1958

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of an urban street scene in front of a luncheon establishment. The image captures a moment in a city environment with a focus on the facade of a building in the background, which prominently features the word "LUNCHEON" painted on a glass window. The building's entrance is adorned with various signs and advertisements indicating products or services. The architecture of the background building appears modernist, with a focus on clean lines and functional design, typical of mid-20th-century urban settings. The photograph is taken in black and white.

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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. 110.

Bibliography

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 206.

Inscriptions

all lower left verso: typed on Minneapolis Institute of Arts sticker: No. L64.143.6 (crossed out) / Lent / by Robert Frank; by later hand, in graphite: 261-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: 261-IV; typed on Museum of Modern Art sticker: Loan / Frank / 62.405 (crossed out); by later hand, on sticker in graphite: 261-IV

Wikidata ID

Q64161359

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