Charleston, South Carolina

Details

ROBERT FRANK
Charleston, South Carolina
Gelatin silver print. 1956/1970s. Signed, titled and dated in ink in the margin.
12 x 16¾in. (30.5 x 42.5cm.) Framed.

Provenance

From the artist;
to the present owner.

Literature

See: Frank, The Americans, p. 39; National Gallery of Art, Robert Frank: Moving Out, p. 197, there dated 1955.

Lot Essay

In his introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans, Jack Kerouac reflects on this nurse and her charge in Charleston, South Carolina. "...the sweet little white baby in the black nurse's arms both of them bemused in Heaven, a picture that should have been blown up and hung in the streets of Little Rock showing love under the sky and the womb of our universe the Mother..."

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