Miami Hotel

1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

The image shows a woman in an elevator, with only the upper half of her body visible. She is leaning against the elevator panel and looking outward. She has defined facial features and wavy hair around her shoulders, wearing a light-colored uniform with a patch on her sleeve. The elevator panel is metallic and reflective, with buttons. Blurred figures of people can be seen around her, and there is a partial view of a potted plant and textured wall in the background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from Lois and Georges de Ménil and Amy Rose by NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 191.

  • 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. 96, as....

Bibliography

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 59.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 191.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Miami Hotel 1955; lower right in black ink: Robert Frank; by later hand, upper left on masking tape in graphite: Proportion!

Wikidata ID

Q64161500

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