Robert Frank
Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City

Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City

© The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation

Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City
Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City
ArtistAmerican, born Switzerland, 1924–2019
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City
  • from the series The Americans
Date1956
PlaceNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (31.6 × 21.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.3 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number83.100
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document" on display at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, January 18–April 30,1995.

"The Universal Archive," Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal, March 9–May 3, 2009.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left below image in ink " 23rd Street New York City 1956 "
bottom right below image in ink " Robert Frank. "

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