Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2019)

Date1955; printed ca. 1965-1970

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 5/8 × 12 3/4 inches (21.92 × 32.39 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.76 × 35.23 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2016.25.5

Signednone

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "R.F.A.001.15", "109-I"

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DescriptionImage of unoccupied gas station along highway overlooking landscape with low lying hills. The gas pumps have shamrock logos on top and there is a neon sign which reads "SAVE GAS".Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

A restless and rebellious spirit, Robert Frank left his native Switzerland in 1947 for New York City. Working with a small 35mm camera in a quick and candid way, Frank made deeply personal images of everyday people and places. Like the Beat poets and jazz musicians of the time, he was interested in a raw and intuitive form of expression. He made his best-known pictures, including this one, in 1955–1956 on a cross-country drive that resulted in his landmark book The Americans (1959).

Provenance

Purchased from Photographs No. 7702, Sotheby's, New York, October 3, 2001, lot 263 by Ruth and Jake Bloom, California, 2001;
Purchased from Ruth and Jake Bloom's sale, Robert Frank: The Americans The Ruth and Jake Bloom Collection No. 9249, Sotheby's New York, December 17, 2015, lot 51, by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

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