Drug store, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s

  • Robert Frank, American, 1924 - 2019

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 23 1/4 × 15 3/4 inches (59.1 × 40 cm) Sheet: 23 7/8 × 20 inches (60.6 × 50.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, with funds from the Founders Junior Council

1999.71

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

Inscribed, dated in black pen and ink, on image, lower left: DETROIT 1955 In pencil, upper right, verso: RF 609 | 6092-I

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

Maloney, Tom, ed. U.S. Camera 1958. New York, 1957, p. 101 (ill.). Frank, Robert. Les Americans, with text by Alain Bosquet. Paris, 1958, p. 149 (ill.). Frank, Robert. The Americans, with text by Jack Kerouac. New York, 1978, p. 147 (ill.). Robert Frank: The Americans. Berlin, New York, 1997, p. 147 (ill.). Barr, Nancy. "Truth, Memory, and the American Working-Class City: Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge."Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 76, no. 1/2 (2002): p. 64 (ill.). Frank, Robert. The Americans, with text by Jack Kerouac. Gottingen, Germany, 2008, pl. 68. Greenough, Sarah and Stuart Alexander. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, expanded ed. Washington D.C., 2009, p. 294 (ill.).

Robert Frank, Drug store, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from the Founders Junior Council, 1999.71.