Rob MacKercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year’s adventures, he’d hosted me with his English class Canton Michigan High School a year before, later visited Naropa.

1986

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: 28.3 x 19 cm (11 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.24

  • 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. 87.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Rob Mac Kercher asleep on futon, living room floor N.Y. January 3, 1986, visiting city for New Year's adventures, he'd hosted me with his English class Canton Michegan [sic] High School a year before, later visited Naropa.; on verso, by unknown hand, across upper left: 86; in upper right corner: #71 [inscribed in a circle]; across center: Page 54; across lower left: 1/3/86 Sleeve 5/19 Image 17,005; across lower center: GD-AG-316; in lower right corner: GDC-649

Wikidata ID

Q64073343

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