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Station--Chicago

1956

Robert Frank

Associated Names

Robert Frank

Artist, American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

This is a photograph of two people seated in an indoor public setting. One person is wearing a broad-brimmed hat adorned with flowers and large, white-framed sunglasses, leaning slightly with an outstretched arm displaying a bracelet. The other person, dressed in a suit, is holding what appears to be a magazine or a newspaper, while sitting on a bench facing away from the first individual. The setting features a vending machine or similar device in the background, along with a partially visible individual standing nearby.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Dimensions

sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

1990.28.1109
Copyright

© Robert Frank Foundation

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Frank, Robert

Exhibition History

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. 64.25.

Wikidata ID

Q64165140

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