Robert Frank
View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana

View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana
View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • View from Hotel Window, Butte, Montana
  • from the series The Americans
Date1956, printed 1972–1977
PlaceButte, Montana, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 13 1/2 in. (22.7 × 34.3 cm)
 Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger
Object number83.86
Not on view

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Department
Photography
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
bottom left below image in ink " View from the Hotel Window, BUTTE "
bottom right partially on image and partially below in ink " Robert Frank. 1956 "

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