Dr. Timothy Leary meeting Neal Cassady first time in Merry Prankster day-glo painted bus. Neal'd driven cross country and up-state to Dr. Leary's retreat at Millbrook N.Y. early in the Goldwater-Johnson Presidentiad. They'd come honking up the estate driveway to park by the big house Kesey & friends like a many-headed psychedelic loudspeaker'd rhinoceros in quiet woodlands recently raided by Assistant D.A. G. Gordon Liddy & local constabulary without search warrants looking for grass busts, L.S.D. still legal those years. Neal's scratching amphetamine itch in his driver's palm. Dr. Tim'd come outside to visit bus.

1964, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 36.5 x 24.6 cm (14 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 50.4 x 40.4 cm (19 13/16 x 15 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.146.35

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: Dr. Timothy Leary meeting Neal Cassady first time in Merry Prankster day-glo- / painted bus Neal'd driven crosscountry and up-state to Dr. Leary's retreat at / Millbrook N.Y. early in the Goldwater-Johnson Presidentiad. They'd come / honking up the estate driveway to park by the big house Kesey & friends / like a many-headed psychedelic loudspeaker'd rhinocerous in quiet / woodlands recently raided by Assistant D.A. G. Gordon Liddy & local con / stabulary without search warrants looking for grass busts, L.S.D. still / legal those years. Neal's scratching amphetamine itch in his driver's / palm, Dr. Tim'd come outside to visit bus, summer 1964. / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by artist, lower right in graphite: signed captioned 9/26/96 / AG; artist's stamp in black ink with graphite notations, lower right: PHOTO INFORMATION / YEAR 1964 / LOCATION MILLBROOK, NY / IMAGE # 1883-84 / SLEEVE # 101 / PRINTED BY SID KAPLAN / NOTE; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-82; bottom right: GDC-850 AGI99 02

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