Robert Frank
Bank, Houston, Texas

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Artist Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019)American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

CultureAmerican

Titles

Bank, Houston, Texas
from the series The Americans

Date1955

PlaceHouston, Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 12 3/16 × 8 in. (31 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jerry E. and Nanette Finger

Object number84.134

Not on view

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, January 18 - April 30, 1995.

"Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 18–April 24, 2009; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, May 17–August 23, 2009; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September22–December 27, 2009.

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

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

bottom left below image in ink " BANK, Houston, Texas "

bottom right below image in ink " Robert Frank 1956 "

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