Caerau, Wales

Photography and Media

1953

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Robert Frank
Title: Caerau, Wales
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 1953
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed on sticker affixed recto, on image, upper left, in black ink: "WALES / 1951"; inscribed and signed recto, along bottom edge, below image, in black ink: "FOR HUGH EDWARDS WITH RESPECTAND FEELING - We are old friends YES. good luck Robert Frank.; verso unchecked
Dimensions: Image: 23.4 × 34.7 cm (9 1/4 × 13 11/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 1/16 in.); Frame: 51.2 × 61.3 cm (20 3/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Hugh Edwards
Reference Number: 1986.1208

Art Institute of Chicago, “Bystander: A History of Street Photography,” December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Photographer’s Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959-1970,” May 24-October 29, 2017. (Elizabeth Siegel)

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