Object Details
Artist
Robert Frank
Date
1960
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 13 9/16 x 8 3/4 inches (34.4 x 22.2 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 20 1/2 inches (40.6 x 52.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of David D. Elliman
Object
Number
85.100.006
Robert Frank’s image of de Kooning and his young daughter seems to suggest comfort and warmth. But(…)
Robert Frank’s image of de Kooning and his young daughter seems to suggest comfort and warmth. But their relationship, like many of de Kooning’s, was complicated by his alcoholism and fame. Lisa de Kooning has reflected that although she believes she was “the apple of his eye,” painting always came first. Here their figures could be interpreted as posed or stiff, an outward demonstration of the father-daughter bond rather than a true instance of it. (“15 Minutes: Exposing Dimensions of Fame,” curated by undergraduate members of Cornell’s History of Art Major’s Society and presented at the Johnson Museum April 16 – July 24, 2016)
