Scanned from a transparency, then color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Ferryboat Across the Potomac

Artist Robert Frank (American (born Switzerland), 1924 - 2019)

CultureAmerican

Date1956

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 12 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (31.4 × 21 cm)
Overall, Support: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (51 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number86.75

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print photograph.

Label TextRobert Frank American, b. Switzerland, 1924 Ferryboat Across the Potomac, 1956 Gelatin silver print (photograph) Museum purchase 86.75 Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years of Photography at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; September 11, 1993-March 6, 1994. "Photographs from the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26-April 23, 1989 "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014. "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund," Chrysler Museum of Art, August 11, 2023 - November 5, 2023.