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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Man in Front of Bus
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.

Man in Front of Bus

Artist Frank Paulin (American, b.1926)
CultureAmerican
Date1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in. (23 × 34.1 cm)
Overall, Paper: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated on verso in pencil and ink: June 81-18 * ok FP/F. Paulin
Credit LineGift of Bruce Silverstein
Object number2009.11.4
Not on view
DescriptionA gelatin silver print of a man smoking dressed in a dark, three-piece suite, with a wide white tie and a fedora. The man is standing in front of a bus underneath the word "service" with a hand in one pocket and a cigarette in the other.
ProvenanceThe artist; Bruce Silverstein (Bruce Silverstein Gallery), New York, NY; Gift of Bruce Silverstein to the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., 2009.Exhibition History"Frank Paulin: Out of the Limelight," Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, 2008.