Object number2000.10
Mary
Date1953
Artist
Robert Louis Frank
(American, 1924 - 2019)
CultureSwiss, American
MediumGelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 x 13 1/2 in. (23.8 x 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Matted: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Matted: 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right margin in ink: R. Frank.
InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower center margin in ink: Mary 1949 [49 scribbled out] 2 1952; lower left margin: NYC 23rd Street.; on verso lower right corner within stamp: Mary 1953 / Lines 23 / 266
MarkingsOn verso, stamped [within a rectangular outline]: ROBERT FRANK ARCHIVE
ProvenancePurchased from Andrew Smith GalleryVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryHistories of Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, July 5 - September 21, 2003DescriptionBlack and white image of a young woman, Frank's wife Mary, from the waist up laying down with her hands folded over her middle. Her head turns to the left so she is in profile and the sun pours through the window out of frame and dapples sunlight across her hair, a clear bowl at left, and several plants lining the table next to her and the windowsill behind her. A thin line with a break at left runs horizontally across the image slightly above center.
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