About the Artwork
Belle Isle - Detroit
1955, printed between 1960 and 1979
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
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Gelatin silver print
Image: 12 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches (31.8 × 47.6 cm) Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
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Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund, and General Art Purchase Fund
2008.48
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed, in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right: R.F.A. 073.9 | 7309-I
Provenance
2008, Robert Frank (New York, New York, USA);2008-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Robert Frank, Belle Isle - Detroit, 1955, printed between 1960 and 1979, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund, and General Art Purchase Fund, 2008.48.
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