Sea of Japan, returning after year and half in India, six-week stopover in Japan travelling with Gary Snyder & wife Joanne Kyger, we supped at Zen Temple nearby, Snyder snorkelled, my Kodak Retina probably in Joanne’s hands, early July 1963.

1963, printed 1989

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.2 x 40.2 cm (11 1/2 x 15 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.131.21

  • 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. 66.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Sea of Japan, returning after year and half in India, six-week stopover in Japan travelling with Gary Snyder & wife Joanne Kyger, we supped at Zen Temple nearby, Snyder snorkelled, my Kodak Retina probably in Joanne's hands, early July 1963.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower right in graphite: GDC-885; across lower center: GD-AG-90; in lower left corner: C: A61-18; across lower left: Signed 10/20[?]/89 10/18/89 S. K.; in upper left corner: #32 VE; across upper left: 63/#61/#1185

Wikidata ID

Q64073213

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