Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate near Poughkeepsie, big house where Tim Leary’s Castalia Foundation was then experimenting with psychedelic DMT, a half hour trip. Here Neal rests with eyes closed watched over by Susan Metzner in charge of holding the vial of clear liquid, just injected. I’d driven up from N.Y. with Kesey’s Merry Pranksters in their bus, Fall 1964.
1964, printed 1993
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: 21.4 x 29.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
sheet: 27.7 x 35.2 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2009.103.14
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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. 69.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate near Poughkeepsie, big house where Tim Leary's Castalia Foundation was then experimenting with psychedelic DMT, a half hour trips [sic]. Here Neal rests with eyes closed watched over by Susan Metzher in charge of holding the vial of clear liquid, just injected. I'd driven up from N.Y. with Kesey's merry pranksters in their bus, Fall 1964.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-349; across lower right: GDC-841; upper left corner: #32 [inscribed in a circle]; across upper right: contact # 67 neg 25A-26 BK 1A 67/#1480; by artist's hand: signed, captioned over 3/31/93 AG; by unknown hand: MS [inscribed in a circle]