City of London, 1951

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.3 x 15.4 cm (9 3/16 x 6 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1994.23.4

Artists / Makers

Robert Frank (artist) American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019

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Copyright

Inscription

all by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 2405 III 20 [circled] C; upper left verso in graphite: CCYB; upper right verso in graphite: 31 1/4 cms; upper right verso in graphite: A. 29; 2405 III / RF.103.2; lower left verso in graphite: X; diagonally from lower left to upper right in graphite: [ruled line]; vertically from lower right edge to upper right edge, in graphite: [ruled arrow]

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from The Howard Gilman Foundation by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Exhibition History

1994: Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 78.

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. 43.

2000: "Hold Still-Keep Going", Museum Folkwang Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2000-2001.

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989: Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 44.

1994: Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 78.