Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in Desolation Angels —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.
1956, printed later
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.5 x 32.6 cm (8 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 31.8 x 41.9 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2008.131.9
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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, 2008.
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. 57.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace - Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these "Darlovsky Brothers" in Desolation Angels - we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.