Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.
1993, printed 1994
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: 27 × 17.8 cm (10 5/8 × 7 in.)
sheet: 35.5 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2012.118.76
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: Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in / slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the / night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my / kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden / courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East / Side Manhattan June 6, 1993. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 10/30/94; center stamped in black ink: Photgraph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower right stamped in black ink with graphite notations: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR 6/6/93 / LOCATION NEW YORK / IMAGE # 1962117 NEG. #17 / SLEEVE # / PRINTED BY SID KAPLIN (10/94) / NOTE LOOKING OUT A.G.'s KITCHEN WINDOW; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-270; bottom right: GDC-743