Peter Orlovsky smoking Indian Hemp, November 1962 at Konarak beside fallen segment of stone sculpture —

1962, printed later

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: 19.9 x 29.7 cm (7 13/16 x 11 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.12

  • 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. 63.

Inscriptions

signed by artist twice, lower right and upper left on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Peter Orlovsky smoking Indian Hemp, November 1962 at Konarak beside fallen segment of stone sculpture; artist inscription on sheet, above image: Peter Orlovsky Konarak November 1962 Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, across left edge in graphite: GD-AG-381; in bottom left corner: GDC-826; across lower center: outside edge of page [?]; in lower right corner: 51 EC; across center: 1962 #57/1042 3Pr [?] 5 #38 B No Ned No. AG [inscribed in a circle, possibly by artist's hand] Page 33; in upper left corner: T43; across upper center: gutter; in upper right corner: #36 [inscribed in a circle]

Wikidata ID

Q64073302

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