About This Artwork

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland 1924

Car Accident, U.S. 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona, 1955

Gelatin silver print
22.6 x 33.9 cm
Photography Gallery Fund, 1961.937

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Robert Frank: Moving Out, 1944-1994," September 27 - December 31, 1994; traveled to Yokohama Museum of Art, February 11 -April 9, 1995; Kunsthaus Zurich, June 29 - August 20, 1995; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, September 9 - October 29, 1995; Whitney Museum of American Art, November 15, 1995 - February 11, 1996; and The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, March 2 - May 19, 1996.

Publication History

Frank, Robert. 1969. “The Americans.” Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Grossman Publishers, New York. [81]. (Other print of this image)

Frank, Robert. 1972. “The Lines of My Hand.” Yugensha, Tokyo. p. 79. (Other print of this image)

Greenough, Sarah. 1994. “Robert Frank: Moving Out.” Essays by Philip Brookman, Martin Gasser, W. Simone Di Piero, and John Hanhardt. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Scalo. p. 188.




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