Guggenheim 27/Americans 13--Charleston, South Carolina

Summer 1955

Robert Frank

Associated Names
Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of a contact sheet displaying a series of black and white images. The contact sheet features numerous small photographs arranged in rows and columns, each photograph capturing different scenes and subjects, including buildings, street scenes, and people interacting with each other and their environment. Some of the images are marked with red and blue grease pencil, highlighting particular frames. The images vary in composition, focus, and activity, offering a glimpse into everyday moments and architectural details.

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Artwork overview

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. 76.

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, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1994

  • Greenough/Brookman 1994, illus.p.173.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in ink: 27

Wikidata ID

Q64164059

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