Coney Island July 4th
1958
Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of the Richard Florsheim Art Fund
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Dimensions
image: 40.6 x 27.1 cm (16 x 10 11/16 in.)
sheet: 43 x 35.6 cm (16 15/16 x 14 in.) -
Accession
1994.24.1
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Copyright
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund by NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1986
Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, 1986-1987.
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. 107.
Bibliography
1989
Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 72.
1994
Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 202.
Inscriptions
lower left in black ink: Coney Island July 4th 1958 Robert Frank; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: LOMH 72 / RF.256; lower left verso in graphite: MFAH RF#114
Wikidata ID
Q64161347