"Head bowed on his shoulder, now and then, he listened." My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet chair 1976 the year he died. See poems in "Don't Grow Old" series for further explanation., 1976, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20.32 × 30.96 cm (8 × 12 3/16 in.)

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

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2010.137.18

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, along bottom in black ink: "Head bowed on his shoulder, now and then, he listened." My father Louis Ginsberg in his velvet chair 1976 the year / he died. See poems in "Don't Grow Old" series for further explanation. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: #104/3801 / BK6 # 28A neg4 + 4A / 1975; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-373; bottom right in graphite: GDC-711

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.