Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1989
Allen Ginsberg
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: 22.86 × 33.5 cm (9 × 13 3/16 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.) -
Accession Number
2010.137.25
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, / view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. / Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg; on verso by unknown hand (Sid Kaplan?), upper left in graphite: Sid Kaplan printed / 12/89 / 53/10/111; by artist's hand, upper left in graphite: Signed 4/24/90 / Allen Ginsberg; by artist's hand, center in graphite: 12-Trees Orig; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: MS; by artist's hand, lower left in graphite: page 17; bottom center, rubber stamp in black ink: © ALLEN GINSBERG TRUST / Trustee, Bob Rosenthal / ________ / This photograph was printed before 4/5/97 / under the supervision of Allen Ginsberg; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-241; bottom right in graphite: GDC-842; bottom right in graphite (inverted) #6
Wikidata ID
Q64073454