Harry Smith, hermetic film-maker, philosopher, archivist, painter & bibliophile stayed in that little music room in my apartment for nine months recovering from a compression fracture of his right knee. He spent months tape-recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side coming into my Manhattan windows from miles around.
1985
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: 14 × 13.8 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/16 in.)
sheet: 32 × 42 cm (12 5/8 × 16 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2011.146.11
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Harry Smith, hermetic film-maker, philosopher, / archivist, painter & bibliophile stayed in that little / music room in my apartment for nine months re- / covering from a compression fracture of his right knee. / He spent months tape-recording ambient sounds of the Lower East Side coming into my Manhattan windows from miles around. February 22, 1985. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, across bottom in graphite: GDC-602 CD-AG-25 GDC-601; lower left on mount circled: #4; across bottom: Image# 14268 GD-AG-25 Image; lower right: GDC-596 Image# 11815 GDC-601 + GDC-602 52