About the Artwork
Detroit River Rouge Plant
1955, printed ca. 1970s
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
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Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/8 × 13 7/8 inches (23.2 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund
1999.8
Non-commercial all standard museum
Markings
Signed in black ink, lower left: Robert Frank. [smudged]
Inscribed, dated, titled in black ink, lower right: DETROIT RIVER ROUGE PLANT 1955 [smudged] In pencil, verso, upper left corner: RF - 14313. Verso, upper right corner: FF.543.1; 400 60 - II M
Backprinting: Agfa [double underscored, dated to the 1970s, paulmessier.com]
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. 45).
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. 67 (ill.).
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© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Robert Frank, Detroit River Rouge Plant, 1955, printed ca. 1970s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund, 1999.8.
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