Henry Schlactner, Kerouac’s friend Al Sublette by Peter Orlovsky. Foster’s Cafeteria S.F. 1955. Me on right.

1955, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.2 x 18.5 cm (4 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.11

  • Copyright

    Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 56.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; signed by Peter Orlovsky, lower right below Ginsberg's signature; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Henry Schlacter, Kerouac's friend Al Sublette by Peter Orlovsky. Foster's Cafeteria S.F. 1955. Me on right.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-227; lower right: 1955 #29/410; lower right corner: GDC-536 AG-226

Wikidata ID

Q64073294

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