Foreign Language Department building, Baoding University, two hours train south of Beijing, November 1984, students at the door—down the avenue past an athletic field is entrance-gate to campus. I taught Whitman, W.C. Williams, Kerouac, Burroughs and Gregory Corso’s writing to eager provincial students for three weeks, and sang lyrics by William Blake.
1984, printed 1987
Allen Ginsberg
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: 21.4 × 32 cm (8 7/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2012.118.68
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: Foreign Language Department building, Baoding University, two hours train south of Beijing, November / 1984, students at the door—down the avenue past an athletic field is entrance-gate to campus. I taught / Whitman, W.C. Williams, Kerouac, Burroughs and Gregory Corso’s writing to eager provincial students for three / weeks, and sang lyrics by William Blake. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: Neg #29 / BK 4#28 / printed Mar 87 B.G.; bottom left: 21; bottom center: GD-AG-374; bottom right: November 1984 GDC-693