About the Artwork
City Hall, Detroit
1955, printed ca. 1960s
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
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Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (21 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund
1999.10
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank In pencil, verso, lower right: R.F.
Inscribed, titled, dated in black pen and ink, lower left: DETROIT - CITY HALL 1955 In pencil, verso, lower center: DETROIT | CITY HALL Verso, upper right corner: F.F. 605; 50 - 45 II
Provenance
1997, Robert Frank (New York, New York, USA).1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robert Frank: Flower Is.... Tokyo, 1987, pl. 63.
Barr, Nancy. "Truth, Memory, and the American Working-Class City: Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge." Bulletin of the DIA 76, no. 1/2 (2002): p. 71 (ill.).
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© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Robert Frank, City Hall, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund, 1999.10.
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