Hoboken (Parade)
Artist
Robert Frank
(American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019)
Date1955; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 22 inches (36.83 × 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 23 7/8 inches (50.62 × 60.63 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 23 7/8 inches (50.62 × 60.63 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.25.3
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Robert Frank."
InscribedInscribed and dated on sheet recto, lower left, in black pen: "Hoboken 1955"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "R.F.A.001.15", "109-I"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of brick facade with an American flag hanging between two windows. A woman looks out from each window, one woman's face is obscured by the flag and the other is in shadow.Gallery LabelRather than photographing a celebratory moment of civic patriotism on the street below, Robert Frank presents us with a moment of dark foreboding. Funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Frank photographed across the United States from 1955– 1956, making a survey of American culture and daily life. This trip resulted in The Americans (1958), one of the most influential photo books ever published. Hoboken (Parade) is the first image in the book. It sets the tone for Frank’s unflinching reckoning with a society unsettled by war, civil protests, and divisive political debates.
Purchased from Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY by Ruth and Jake Bloom, California, 1998;
Purchased from Robert Frank: The American The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection No. 9249, Sotheby's New York, December 17, 2015, lot 8, by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Purchased from Robert Frank: The American The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection No. 9249, Sotheby's New York, December 17, 2015, lot 8, by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Robert Frank; Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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