My brother Eugene Brooks, Lawyer, at his desk at Manning's Tire & Battery Service Used Car Sales, 125 Street & Amsterdam Avenue Manhattan. Jerome Brodsky Insurance Broker jack-in-box from adjoining cubicle. Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1990
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: 13.97 × 13.97 cm (5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
sheet: 35.24 × 27.62 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2010.137.31
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: My brother Eugene Brooks, Lawyer, at his desk / at Manning's Tire & Battery Service Used Car Sales, /125 Street & Amsterdam Avenue Manhattan. Jerome Brodsky Insurance Broker jack-in-box from adjoining cubicle. Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by artist's hand, upper center in graphite: Circa / 1953/19/169 / Eugene Brooks / Sid Kaplan printed for FMAC 10/90 / Signed June 15, 1991 A.G.; center, rubber stamp in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-55; bottom right in graphite: GDC-949
Wikidata ID
Q64073463