We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Carlo Crivelli’s green-hued Christ-face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skull — here Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan.
1953, 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: 22.3 x 25.1 cm (8 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
sheet: 28 x 35.4 cm (11 x 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2009.103.6
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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, 2009.
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. 45.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of art [sic] to view Carlo Crivelli's green-hued Christ - face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skull - here Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan.; on verso, by unknown hand, in upper left corner in graphite: #31 VE; across center: Page 40; in upper right corner: #8 [inscribed in a circle]; along bottom edge center: GD-AG-245; across lower right: T12 16/146 1953 45 GDC-752 AGI96 23; across lower center stamped in black: © ALLEN GINSBERG TRUST Trustee, Bob Rosenthal ______ This photograph was printed before 4/5/97 under the supervision of Allen Ginsberg