Ford Plant, 1955

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 35.2 x 23.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

sheet: 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Lois and Georges de Ménil

Accession Number

1993.35.4

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

lower right in black ink: Robert Frank FORD PLANT JULY 1955; all by later hands: upper right verso in graphite: RF.240 / LOMH 63; lower right verso in graphite: 18 (circled)

Provenance

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from Lois and Georges de Ménil by NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

Exhibition History

1994: Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 190.

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. 95, as Ford Plant.

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. 61.

2019: Life is a Highway: Art and American Car Culture, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989: Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989: pl. 63.

1994: Greenough/Brookman 1994, p. 190.