Peter Orlovsky age 21 with our first car, old delivery truck "The Hearse," Telegraph Hill a block up from our apartment rooms 1010 Montgomery Street near Broadway Corner. We drove to Yosemite, the car cost $125. San Francisco 1955., 1955, printed 1990

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.8 x 30.5 cm (7 13/16 x 12 in.)

sheet: 28 x 35.4 cm (11 x 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2011.146.33

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Peter Orlovsky age 21 with our first car, old delivery truck "The Hearse," Telegraph Hill a block up / from our apartment rooms 1010 Montgomery Street near Broadway Corner. We drove to Yosemite, / the car cost $125. San Francisco 1955. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, artist's stamp in black ink with graphite notations, lower right: PHOTO INFORMATION / YEAR 1955 Summer / LOCATION Hodges Heley North Beach, SF / IMAGE # 653 / SLEEVE # 47/ PRINTED BY SID KAPLAN / NOTE Signed 8/18/96; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 1955/#29/399 / Sid Kaplan print / 3/90; bottom center: GD-AG-246; bottom right: GDC-837

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.