Old-timer & survivor Herbert E. Huncke, Beat literary pioneer who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & myself to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945. From ’48 on he penned several remarkable volumes especially the classic The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, autobiographic anecdotal tales (Cherry Valley, 1970). Here age 78 in basement apartment backyard East 7th Street near Avenue C, Lower East Side New York. — May 18, 1993.
1993
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Allen Ginsberg
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.8 x 17.4 cm (10 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
sheet: 35.3 x 28 cm (13 7/8 x 11 in.) -
Accession Number
2009.103.31
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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. 78.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Old-timer & survivor Herbert E. Huncke, Beat literary pioneer who introduced Burroughs, Kerouac & myself to floating population hustling & drug scene Times Square 1945. From '48 on he penned several remarkable volumes especially the classic The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, autobiographic anecdotal tales (Cherry Valley, 1970). Here age 78 in basement apartment backyard East 7th street near avenue D, Lower East Side Manhattan May 18, 1993.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-67; across lower right: 2 v [check mark] GDC-829