Assembly Plant, Ford--Detroit

1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of an assembly line in a car manufacturing plant. The image shows a car's front frame suspended from an overhead pulley system above another car assembly on the shop floor. The background includes the factory structure, wooden paneling, and overhead lights reflecting off the car's surface. The composition conveys motion and precision, representing the industrial process of automobile manufacturing.

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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

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. 64.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Assembly Plant Ford--Detroit; lower right in black ink: 1958 Robert Frank

Wikidata ID

Q64161406

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