Men of Air/New York
1947
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: 35.1 x 23.6 cm (13 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
sheet: 35.1 x 31.4 cm (13 13/16 x 12 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1990.28.29.25
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Copyright
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Associated Artworks
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Tickertape/New York City
Robert Frank
1951
Medals/New York
Robert Frank
1951
Artificial Tulip/Paris
Robert Frank
1952
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, New York; 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. 13.
2000
"Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000-2001.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2004 - 2005, unnumbered catalogue.
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. 50.
Bibliography
1949
Camera 28 (December 1949): pl. 7 (recto only).
1951
Photo Arts (December 1951): 598 (recto only).
1994
Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 30.
2004
Robert Frank: Storylines. Exh. cat., Tate, London; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. London: Tate Publishing, 2004.
Inscriptions
lower left on linen tape hinge in graphite: 25
Wikidata ID
Q64161368