Coney Island July 4th

1958

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a scene on a beach. The image captures a sandy beach with a person laying on the ground covered with a white blanket. A straw hat is placed next to them on the sand. In the background, two figures are standing near the water's edge. They appear to be embracing or leaning against each other, looking out towards the calm sea. Soft waves are visible in the water, under a hazy sky. The photograph's monochrome tones emphasize the textural contrasts between the sand, the blanket, and the figures.
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Artwork overview

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

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