Robert Frank
City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey

City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey
City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey
  • from the series The Americans
Date1955
Place depictedHoboken, New Jersey, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/16 × 12 1/8 in. (20.4 × 30.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.243
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C. for from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30, 1989 (LN:89.10).

Exhibited: "Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Jan. 18 - Apr. 30, 1995 (LN:95.7).

"American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 7 July 2012 - 2 January 2013.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom center below image in ink " HOBOKEN 1955 "
bottom right below image in ink " R. Frank. "

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