Lafcadio Orlovsky, with sister Marie. I went to Park Lake Rest Home Ronkonkoma L.I. where he’d been sheltered & sedated the last few years, silent - till Catholic Charities arranged for Day-Care thrice weekly, he woke a bit & began crayon drawing again, phoned me & asked me to visit with Marie after 2 years absence. “Can I go home and live with Marie?” We went to restaurant on highway nearby March 21, 1995.
1995
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: 30.4 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.62
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Lafcadio Orlovsky, with sister Marie. I went to Park Lake Rest Home / Ronkonkoma L.I. where he’d been sheltered & sedated the last few years, / silent - till Catholic Charities arranged for Day-Care thrice weekly, he / woke a bit & began crayon drawing again, phoned me & asked me to visit / with Marie after 2 years absence. “Can I go home and live with Marie?” / we went to restaurant on highway nearby March 21, 1995. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: #97 VE; center, stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; lower right in graphite: [checkmark] / 3/21/95 / Neg#32; bottom center: GD-AG-262; bottom right: GDC-631