William S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace Paperback Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder. Japanese kite against old hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of Yage Letters and Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter-zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tangier in December. New York, Fall 1953.

1953, 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: 26.7 x 40.5 cm (10 1/2 x 15 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.5 x 50.3 cm (15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.146.38

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: William S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace / Paperback [underline] Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder, Japanese kite against against old / hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of [underline] Yage Letters and [underline] Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter- / zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire-escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side / apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tanger in December. New York, Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-157; bottom right: GDC-906

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