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Car shrouded in fancy expensive designed tarpolian (I knew a truckdriver pronounced it 'tarpolian') to keep soots of no-soot Malibu from falling on new simonize job as owner who is a two-dollar- an-hour carpenter snoozes in house with wife and TV, all under palm trees for nothing, in the cemeterial California night, ag, ack - Jack Kerouac from his introduction to The Americans
Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Covered Car - Long Beach, California, 1956
Details
Robert Frank (b. 1924)
Covered Car - Long Beach, California, 1956
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed, titled and dated in ink (in the margin)
9 x 13 3/8in. (22.8 x 33.9cm.)
Covered Car - Long Beach, California, 1956
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed, titled and dated in ink (in the margin)
9 x 13 3/8in. (22.8 x 33.9cm.)
Provenance
With Houk Friedman Gallery, New York
Literature
Frank, Les Américains, Delpire, 1958, [pl. 34], p. 73; Frank, The Americans, Grove Press, 1959, [pl. 34], n.p., and in all subsequent editions; Rotzler, 'Robert Frank,' Du, vol. 22, no. 1, January 1962, p. 15; Greenough and Brookman, eds., Robert Frank: Moving Out, The National Gallery of Art, 1994, p. 187