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Robert Frank

Don’t Fuck with Mother Nature

1984

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Robert Frank

Don’t Fuck with Mother Nature

1984

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 502 × 716 mm. (19 3/4 × 28 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.331
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Masterpieces from the Museum's Dalsheimer Photographs," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.

Inscribed: FACE: (stenciled in black and red ink) on photograph u.l. 'DONT FUCK WITH MOTHER NATURE'; in photograph clockwise from u.l. 'I LOVE /YOU, I HATE /YOU I HATE /YOU, MOTHER NATURE /DECEMBER, NATURE'; (signed in black ink) l.l. 'Mabou December, 1984'; bottom center 'Robert Frank'. MAT VERSO: (pencil) center '1(circled) 22x30'.

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Robert Frank

American, born Switzerland, 1924-2019

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