Snow-covered cabin--Landscape
1941-1945
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.9 x 23.3 cm (7 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.) sheet: 17.9 x 24.3 cm (7 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert Frank Collection, Gift of Robert Frank
Accession Number
1994.37.127
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Robert Frank Collection at the National of Art, *Snow-covered cabin--Landscape (1941–1945) captures a serene winter through the lens of a young Robert Frank. This gelatin silver print, measuring about 7 x 9 inches, depicts a humble cabin blanketed in snow, evoking the quiet isolation of a rural landscape. Created during World War II, when Frank was in his late teens and early twenties in Switzerland, the image reflects his early experimentation with photography amid global turmoil. Gelatin silver prints like this one were the gold standard for black-and-white photography in the...
About the Artist
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924-2019) was a Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker whose revolutionary approach to documentary photography fundamentally transformed the medium and influenced generations of artists. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, on November 9, 1924, to a middle-class Jewish family, Frank began his photographic apprenticeship in 1941, working with commercial photographers before im...