Artist
Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019)American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
- From the Bus Series, NYC
Date1958, printed 1973
Place depictedNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/16 × 10 7/16 in. (18.2 × 26.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 16 7/8 in. (35.5 × 42.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 16 7/8 in. (35.5 × 42.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Morgan Garwood
Object number2014.124
Not on view
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After crisscrossing the country in a used Ford in 1955
and 1956 as a Guggenheim fellow, the Swiss émigré Robert Frank returned to New York
City to organize his photographs into the highly influential book The
Americans, first published in France in 1958. He spent that summer riding
city buses and capturing impressions of New York and its inhabitants passing by
with a cinematic quality of movement that was new to his work. In fact, Frank would
soon set his still camera aside and devote the majority of his creative effort
to filmmaking.
ProvenanceMorgan Garwood, New York; bequeathed to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A Critical Eye: Mid-Century American Photographs from the Morgan Garwood Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23–November 2, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top right corner: L4
Inscribed in ink, verso, lower center: 1958 From the Bus Series NYC. // Robert Frank [signed] 1973.
Inscribed in ink, verso, lower center: 1958 From the Bus Series NYC. // Robert Frank [signed] 1973.
Inscribed in ink, verso, lower center: 1958 From the Bus Series NYC. // Robert Frank [signed] 1973.
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Ernest C. Withers
December 1956, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print
98.225.2
