Central Park South

1948

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 33.7 x 26.2 cm (13 1/4 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.28.25

  • Copyright

    © June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist, New York, NY; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 12.

1999

  • The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999, fig. 683.

Bibliography

1949

  • Camera 28 (December 1949): pl. 6.

1951

  • Photo Arts (December 1951): 597.

1989

  • Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York, 1989: pl. 7.

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, 29.

1999

  • Haskell, Barbara. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–1950. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999: 356, fig. 683.

Inscriptions

upper right in black ink: Robert Frank 1948

Wikidata ID

Q64161089

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