Robert Frank and June Leaf--Mabou RF 45

1970s · Photograph

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Where is “Robert Frank and June Leaf--Mabou RF 45” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Accession number: 1994.37.1219

What it shows

Family

In the catalog

Photographs Post-war art 20th century American

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

In the life of Robert Frank

The whole life

28 November 1968
Leslie reveals the truth about “Pull My Daisy”
The film’s co-director Alfred Leslie reveals in a Village Voice piece that Pull My Daisy was not improvised at all: it was carefully planned, rehearsed and directed by him and Frank, who shot it with professional lighting.
1969
Separates from Mary and remarries
Frank and Mary separate; he later marries the sculptor June Leaf and in 1971 moves to Mabou on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, dividing his time between his home there, a former fisherman’s shack on the coast, and his Bleecker Street loft in New York.
1971 · Residence
Mabou
1972
The book “The Lines of My Hand”
Returning to still images, he publishes his second photographic book, The Lines of My Hand, described as a “visual autobiography” of largely personal photographs. He later largely gives up “straight” photography to create narratives out of constructed images and collages, with words, multiple frames and scratched and distorted negatives, though none of this later work achieves an impact comparable to that of The Americans.
1974
Death of his daughter Andrea
His daughter Andrea is killed in a plane crash in Tikal, Guatemala. The loss shapes much of his later work, and his reputation as a recluse who declines most interviews and public appearances grows particularly after it.
c. 1974
His son Pablo’s illness
Around this time his son Pablo is first hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia.