The Robert Frank Collection
Collection Access
The Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art is available to the public for research. To make an appointment in the study room, please call (202) 842-6144 or e-mail [email protected]. We would like to have at least two weeks' notice for appointments and to be provided with a list of the materials you would like to see.
Rights
Robert Frank owns the copyright to all of his photographic work and correspondence. Reproductions of photographs are not available unless specifically requested and approved by the artist's agent, Pace/MacGill Gallery. If permission is granted for reproduction, please contact the National Gallery for an image and credit line. If any correspondence or other ephemera from the collection is referenced, the author should cite, "The Robert Frank Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington."
Introduction to the Collection
Photographs, Contact Sheets, Work Prints, and Volumes
Switzerland 1941–1946
40 Fotos, 1946
New York 1947–1954
Peru, 1948
Europe 1949–1953
Black White and Things, 1952
The Guggenheim Trip, 1955–1957
The Americans, 1955–1957
From the Bus, 1958
Photographs and Film 1959–1980
New York and Nova Scotia, 1971–2005
Negatives
Photographs by Other Photographers
Technical Material
Papers, Books and Recordings
Film and Video