Gary Snyder, his small house-garden on Nishinomiya-cho, Kita-ku section near Dai-tokuji temple, in monk’s travelling outfit, wearing Unsui’s indigo-dyed cotton training robe (koromo), square handsewn Rakusu cloth hung round his neck, thick belt to guard zazen sitting posture & belly warmth, and dark-browned Ajirokasa basket-hat stained with juice of green persimmons. Kyoto, Japan July 1963.
1963, 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: 38.7 x 28.1 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/16 in.)
sheet: 50.2 x 40.5 cm (19 3/4 x 15 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2008.131.20
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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. 65.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gary Snyder, his small house-garden on Nishinomuja-cho, kita-ku section near Dai-tokuji temple, in monk's travelling outfit, wearing Unsui & indigo dyed cotton training robe (koromo), square hand-sewn Rakusu cloth hung round his neck, thick belt to guard zazen sitting posture & belly warmth, and dark-browned Ajirokasa basket-hat stained with juice of green persimmons. Kyoto, Japan July 1963.; on verso, by unknown hand, across center stamped in black ink: Photograph by Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fax 212-675-1686; lower center in graphite: GD-AG-91; lower center right: D - IV 3/3 - IV's; lower right corner: 59/1102 July 1963 JAPAN CDC-884