Robert Frank
'NYC Yom Kippur'
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Robert Frank
1924 - 2019
'NYC Yom Kippur'
oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated in ink on the image, flush-mounted to Masonite, the edges of the mount with black ink, framed, a Pace/MacGill Gallery label on the reverse
image: 12⅜ by 18⅝ in. (31.4 by 47.3 cm.)
frame: 26¾ by 30¾ in. (67.9 by 78.1 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photographs By Robert Frank, May - September 1969
Robert Frank, The Americans (New York, 1958), no. 16
Robert Frank (Aperture), p. 33
Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present (New York: 1984), p. 217
Marianne Fulton, Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America (New York, 1988), p. 179
Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989) p. 356
Robert Frank: Story Lines (London: Tate Modern, 2004), frontispiece 2
Michael Shelden, 'Melancholy and Menace,' Telegraph Magazine, 3 May 2008, p. 36
Sarah Greenough, Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2009), pp. 229, 461, and 464, and Contact no. 16
Peter Galassi, Robert Frank: In America (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014), p. 127
