Joanne Kyger, poet, & her husband Gary Snyder holding umbrella, with priest from local temple connected with Gary's Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, home base for his Zen studies - we stayed over, wrote haikus in priest's family memento book, Joanne collected shiny pebbles, rainy day Sea of Japan, July 1963.
1963, printed 1995
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Allen Ginsberg
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 28.3 x 39.3 cm (11 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
sheet: 40.4 x 50.6 cm (15 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2008.131.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Joanne Kyger, poet, & her husband Gary Snyder holding umbrella, with priest from local temple connected with Gary's Daitoku-ji in Kyoto, home base for his Zen studies - we stayed over, wrote haikus in priest's family memento book, Joanne collected shiny pebbles, rainy day Sea of Japan, July 1963.; on verso, center, stamped in black ink: Photograph By Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: CG-AG-16; lower right in graphite: signed by AG 10/22/95 SK 10/95 *2083 GDC-586