Wales, Ben James, 1953

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.5 × 34.4 cm (8 7/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Betsy Karel, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2014.154.8

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in black ink: 1951 [underlined] / R. Frank; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 3035AIII; upper right: 3035AIII / RF.669; center, stamped in red ink: GAMMA / PICTURE AGENCY / 33 West 42nd Street / New York 13, N.Y. / LA. 4.5578 / CREDIT:; center right in graphite: 456; lower right inverted in orange crayon: 37-20; lower center inverted with arrows pointing left and right: 25 BM / PICAS; on strip of masking tape affixed to lower right corner, in black and red ink: 12 [circled] PAY DAY / Robert Frank [crossed out]

Provenance

Robert Frank, New York; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Betsy Karel, Washington, DC, 2003; gift to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Karel, Betsy

Exhibition History

2003: Robert Frank: London/Wales, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 10-July 14, 2003

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 16 March 2016 - 19 June 2016

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

Bibliography

2016: Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers. Exh. cat. Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2016: 60.