Assembly line - Detroit

1955, printed ca. 1960s

Robert Frank American, 1924 - 2019

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Title Assembly line - Detroit

Artwork Date 1955, printed ca. 1960s

Artist Robert Frank

Life Dates 1924 - 2019

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 8 7/8 × 13 1/8 inches (22.5 × 33.3 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Coville Photographic Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1999.7

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Signed Signed in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank

Inscriptions Inscribed, dated in black pen and ink, lower left: River Rouge Ford Assembly Plant 1955 In pencil, verso, upper right edge: RF. A. 050.1 Upper right corner: 5005 I (J)

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1997, Robert Frank (New York, New York, USA). 1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Frank, Robert. Les Americans, with text by Alain Bosquet. Paris, 1958, p. 109 (ill.).

Frank, Robert. The Americans, with text by Jack Kerouac. New York, 1978, p. 111 (ill.).

Robert Frank: The Americans. Berlin, New York, 1997, p. 109 (ill.).

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. 65 (ill.).

Barr, Nancy. "Motor City News, Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge." BIG, no. 48 (Sept. 2003).

Baas, Valerie, and Nancy W. Barr. "Note on the Rarity and Care of Works by Robert Frank in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 80, no. 1/2 (2006): fig. 1, p. 54 (ill.).

Frank, Robert. The Americans, with text by Jack Kerouac. Gottingen, Germany, 2008, pl. 49.

Auto Photo: Cars & Photography, 1900 to Now. Exh. cat., Fondation Cartier. Paris, 2017, pp. 260-261 (ill.).

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Sol

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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