Robert Frank

signed in ink in the margin, framed, Bloom Collection and Pace Wildenstein MacGill labels on the reverse, 1956, printed later

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1997

The Americans, no. 58

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, pp. 281 and 476, and Contact no. 58

'A Pageant Portfolio: One Man's U. S. A.,' Pageant, April 1958, p. 27

Evergreen Review, November/December 1960, cover

Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, p. 200

John Szarkowski, Looking At Photographs, pp. 176-77

Robert Frank (Aperture), frontispiece

Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, cover and p. 156

Robert Frank and American Politics (Akron Art Museum), p. 18

Anne W. Tucker and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia, p. 33

Susan Kismaric, American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993, p. 151

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out, pp. 129 and 180

Denise Miller, et al., Photography’s Multiple Roles: Art Document, Market, Science, p. 10

This print is on double-weight paper with a semi-glossy surface. It is in generally excellent condition. It is printed with wide margins and has an overall neutral tonality and high contrast. There are a few very faint scuffs on the reverse of the print. The following is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse: 'RF. A. 058.22' and 'EG.'
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“From the fine shiny sousaphone rises a comic strip balloon that pronounces once more the virtue of ritual patriotism. On either side of the tuba-player stand his fellows, as anonymous and as dependable as he. It is somehow proper – funnier, sadder, and truer – that the occasion should have been an Adlai Stevenson rally”  John Szarkowski