Robert Frank, his Bleeker [sic] Street house New York January 1984, old Polaroid 195 gives negative, portrait for my Collected Poems 1947-1980 back-jacket--Peter Orlovsky present snapped us both that hour.
1984
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: 19.9 × 29.6 cm (7 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.71
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: Robert Frank, his Bleeker Street house New York January 1984, old Polaroid 195 gives neg- / ative, portrait for my Collected Poems 1947-1980 [underlined] back-jacket—Peter Orlovsky present snapped / both that hour. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left perpendicular in graphite: T57; center: 1984 / BK 1 #1 [underlined] neg 35A / #171/7,885; center right perpendicular: 55; lower center: GD-AG-369; lower right: GDC-720 27. EG
Wikidata ID
Q64073608