Chinese Cemetery–San Francisco

Inscription: Signed in ink on print surface, recto BRC: "Robert Frank"; numerous Museum of Modern Art, New York printed paper labels with typed annotations and inscriptions in pencil, affixed on masonite mount, verso C, BLC, BC, BC: "THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART // 11 WEST 53RD STREET NEW YORK // CALLAHAN AND FRANK [underlined] // ARTIST Frank // TITLE CHINESE CEMETERY, SAN FRANCISCO, // (NEW GRAVE, WREATH, TREES) // CIRCULATING EXHIBITION NO. // MUSEUM NO. 62.393 BOX NO.", "163 // MUSEUM OF MODERN ART // 11 WEST 53RD STREET, NEW YORK 19, N.Y. // ARTIST Robert Frank // "The Americans" 1955-57 57 // Chinese cemetery - San Francisco // MEDIUM Photograph // Lent by the Photographer // MUSEUM NO. STORAGE SPACE. // COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS // R.F. 138", "MUSEUM OF MOERN ART // LOAN // FRANK // 62.393 [all crossed out with blue ink X]", "MUSEUM OF MODERN ART // LOAN // FRANK // C/E 62.393"; Inscription in unknown hand in pencil on paper tape, URC: "5701- I".

Robert Frank (until at least 1962); [...]; [Peter MacGill / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, sold 1994]; Barbara Schwartz, New York

Frank, Robert. Les Américains. Paris: R. Delpire, 1958. no. 57.

Frank, Robert. The Americans. New York: Grove Press, 1959. no. 57.

Greenough, Sarah. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans. Expanded ed. Washington, D.C.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. p. 279.