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View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana
View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana

View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana

Artist Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019)
Date1956; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 13 1/2 inches (22.7 × 34.29 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1374
SignedSigned and dated on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "71 R. Frank"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, black stamp with pencil: "ROBERT FRANK ARCHIVE / Americans 26 / View from hotel window / Butte, Montanta / 193"
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DescriptionSheer curtains open up to an aerial view of a small mountain town with roof tops outside the window and parked cars lining the street below.Exhibition History

Masters of 20th-Century Photography from the Hallmark Collection. Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, May 2 -June 13, 1982, no cat.

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 –  May 1, 1983.

20th-Century Works from the Hallmark Photographic Collection.  Cottey College, Nevada, MO, January 9-27, 1984, no cat.

Cityscapes: 20th Century Urban Images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO, April 13 - May 20, 1984, no cat.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Robert Frank; Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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