Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Polk & Sutter, “Polk Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955.

1955, printed 1994

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.5 × 41.5 cm (10 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.5 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.118.89

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: Peter’s friend Henry Schlacter from S.F. Community College, Kerouac’s buddy Al Sublette & Peter Orlovsky / in Foster’s Cafeteria under Hotel Weatley on Park & Sutter, “Park Gulch”, we all rendez-vous’d hours & hours, / living in neighborhood. Robert LaVigne made many sketches & group portrait oil tableaux small and large with / mirror-reflected tables & visages of ourselves, Cassady, Natalie, etc. that season, San Francisco early 1955. / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 1956 / 37/626; bottom center: GD-AG-66; bottom right: GDC-994

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