Gregory Corso, Maestro Poet, ancient herald’s wand pin, messenger-god Hermes Caduceus near his pen, a quiet afternoon in “The Kettle of Fish,” an old bar in Greenwich Village under whose sign Kerouac used to drink. Gregory called me to join him, we spent a few hours talking till supper time, tired he took cab home to Horatio Street, March 13, 1995. I showed him poems by 19 year old new poet, he liked them too.

1995

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a man with slightly long, light-colored hair, wearing a buttoned-up dark collared shirt under a lighter vest or jacket. He has a serious facial expression, with wrinkles on his forehead and around his eyes. The man is looking directly at the camera, with two pens in his shirt pocket and a watch with a dark band on his wrist. The background is an indoor setting with framed pictures and documents.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.8 x 24.8 cm (9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 x 35.2 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.103.32

  • 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. 91.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gregory Corso, Maestro Poet, ancient herald's wand pin, messenger-god Hermes Caduceus near his pen, a quiet afternoon in "The Kettle of Fish", an old bar in Greenwich Village under whose sign Keroauc used to drink. Gregory called me to join him, we spent a few hours talking till supper time, tired he took cab home to Horatio Street, March 13, 1995. I showed him poems by 19 year-old new poet, he liked them too.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-237; across lower right: GDC-735; across center, stamped in black ink: Photographs By Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fax 212-675-1686; across upper right: neg # 10 3/13/95

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