Robert Frank

oversized, signed, titled, and dated in ink in the margin, annotation in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1955, printed in the late 1960s or early 1970s

Yajima Gallery, Montreal, circa 1975

Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery, Robert Frank and the Everyday, September - October 1993

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Collects, September 2001 - January 2002

Vancouver Art Gallery, Real Pictures, January - May 2005

Vancouver, Presentation House Gallery, Eye to Eye, June - July 2015

Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 18

Tom Maloney, ed., U. S. Camera Annual 1958 (New York, 1957), pp. 106-7

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1961), p. 9

Robert Frank (Aperture, 1976), p. 95

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 41

Robert Frank, Robert Frank (New York, 1985), pl. 34

Sarah Greenough and Philip Brookman, Robert Frank: Moving Out (National Gallery of Art, 1994), pp. 172 and 196 

Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans (National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. vi-vii, 232, and 466, and Contact no. 18

Nicholas Dawidoff, ‘The Man Who Saw America: Hidden America,’ The New York Times Magazine, 5 July 2015, p. 42

This commanding large print, on double-weight Agfa paper with a glossy surface, is in generally excellent condition. The upper left margin corner is lightly bumped. The following are visible on the reverse: faint soiling in a few places; several stray graphite marks; and faint yellowing at each corner. 'RF-16112' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse.
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