About the Artwork
Public Beach in Detroit
1955, printed ca. 1960s
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print with paper collage
Image: 8 7/16 × 12 7/8 inches (21.4 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council
1997.48
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Markings
Signed in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank
Titled on yellow-ruled paper, typed in black ink, upper center: Public Beach in Detroit Inscribed in black ink pen and ink, on white label, affixed to lower left: BOTTOM [double underscored] | PAGE 13 In black pen and ink, on white label, affixed to lower center: 6 3/8 in. [followed by one arrow pointing both right and left] In black crayon, verso, upper right: 17 In pencil, verso, upper left corner: 5390 - II In pencil, verso, upper right corner: R.F. 602 5390 - II In pencil, verso, lower right: Detroit [underlined] In pen and blue ink, verso, center: 1 [circled] Dated, lower right: 55
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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Frank, Robert. The Lines of My Hand. 1972, 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. 67 (ill.).
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© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Robert Frank, Public Beach in Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s, gelatin silver print with paper collage. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, 1997.48.
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