Ford Plant
1955
Robert Frank
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 35.2 x 23.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1993.35.4
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Copyright
© Robert Frank Foundation
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from Lois and Georges de Ménil by NGA, 1993.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 190.
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. 95, as Ford Plant.
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, no. 61.
2019
Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1989
Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 63.
1994
Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 190.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: Robert Frank FORD PLANT JULY 1955; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: RF.240 / LOMH 63; lower right verso in graphite: 18 (circled)
Wikidata ID
Q64161363