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

Photography and Media

1955

Robert Frank
American, born Switzerland, 1924–2019

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Robert Frank
Title: Car Accident, U.S. 66, between Winslow and Flagstaff, Arizona
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.: 1955
Medium: Gelatin silver print, from "The Americans" (1955/56)
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 22.6 × 33.9 cm (8 15/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Mount: 55.8 × 45.7 cm (22 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Photography Gallery Fund
Reference Number: 1961.937
Copyright: © Robert Frank

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/Scalo. p. 188.

Tokyo, Japan, National Museum of Art, “The Past and Present of Photography: When Photographs Enter the Museum,” September 26–December 16, 1990.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Robert Frank: Moving Out, 1944-1994,” September 27–December 31, 1994; traveled to Minatomirai, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, February 11–April 9, 1995; Zurich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zurich, June 29–August 20, 1995; Amsterdam, Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, September 9–October 29, 1995; New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, November 15, 1995–February 11, 1996; and Los Angeles, California, The Lannan Foundation, March 2–May 19, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris)
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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