Men's Room, Railway Station, Memphis, Tennessee

Photography and Media

1955/56

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Robert Frank
Title: Men's Room, Railway Station, Memphis, Tennessee
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1955–1956
Medium: Gelatin silver print, from "The Americans" (1955/56)
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, below image, in black ink: "RAILROAD STATION, MEMPHIS TENNESSEE"; signed and inscribed recto, lower right, below image, in black ink: "Robert Frank. 1955"; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "5201-I (J)"
Dimensions: Image: 21 × 31.6 cm (8 5/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
Reference Number: 1992.666

Art Institute of Chicago, “”Lessons in Life”: Photographic Works from the Boardroom Collection,” March 26-June 19, 1994. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “What Am I Looking At: Robert Frank Photographs,” November 2, 2002-February 2, 2003. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration”, January 20 - May 6, 2007. (Elizabeth Siegel and Newell G Smith)

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