City of London, 1952

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sight size: 34.1 x 21 cm (13 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
image: 34.8 x 22.1 cm (13 11/16 x 8 11/16 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

1994.23.3

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

lower left verso in black ink: LONDON-BANKER 52-; lower right verso in black ink: Robert Frank.; upper right verso in graphite: LOMH 47; center verso in graphite: RobT / FRAnk / c; lower left verso in graphite: MFA, H RF# 35; lower right verso in graphite: FRANK / 53.861

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Exhibition History

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

2003: "Robert Frank: London/Wales", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.

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. 18.

Bibliography

1989: Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 47.

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.