About the Artwork
River Rouge Plant, Detroit
1955, printed ca. 1960s
Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (21 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (27.6 × 35.2 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council
1997.46
© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Markings
Signed in black pen and ink, lower right: Robert Frank.
Inscribed in black pen and ink, lower left: River Rouge Parking 1955 In pencil, verso, upper left corner: 400-80-II Upper right edge: RF. 603 400-80-II | Ford - Detroit
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. 47.
Greenough, Sarah. Robert Frank. Washington, 1994, p. 189 (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. 68 (ill.).
Barr, Nancy. "Motor City News, Robert Frank in Detroit and at the Rouge." BIG, no. 48 (September 2003).
Robert Frank Storylines. London, 2004, p. 93 (ill.).
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© June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation
Robert Frank, River Rouge Plant, Detroit, 1955, printed ca. 1960s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, 1997.46.
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