Robert Frank
St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles

St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles
St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles
  • from the series The Americans
Date1956
Place depictedLos Angeles, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 12 15/16 in. (21.4 × 32.9 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number82.513
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryLoaned to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, for "Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," from Jan. 18 - Apr. 30, 1995 (LN:95.7).

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black ink, recto, lower right below image: Robert Frank.
Inscribed in black ink, recto, lower left below image: CITY HALL LOS ANGELES 1956
Signed in black ink, recto, lower right below image: Robert Frank.

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