Gregory Corso grounded serious straightforward looking at me Boulder, Colorado, Jane Faigao's Patio, hot tub behind him. Teaching that summer, Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, earlier in the day he'd taken psychedelic "Ecstasy" powder, July 29, 1985. "Empathy" would be more accurate name., 1985

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.5 × 24.77 cm (9 1/4 × 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 35.4 × 27.62 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2010.137.21

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Gregory Corso grounded serious straightforward looking at me / Boulder Colorado, Jane Faigao's patio, hot tub behind him. Teaching / that summer, Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied / Poetics, earlier in the day he'd taken psychedelic "Ecstasy" Powder, July / 29, 1985. "Empathy" would be more accurate name. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 94; bottom left in graphite: +; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-321; by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: #415/14,268 / July 29/85 / BK4 # 12 (lightly crossed out) / Neg 5; bottom right: GDC-749; bottom right: 42

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.