David Greenberg, Phi Beta Kappa Rutgers U. '93, Poet, art curator & essayist, guitar-singer Indie-Rock group "Pen Pal", co-editor Soft Skull Press, Great friend & scholar, fresh from 24th birthday head-shave: when you look at it closer it doesn't look menacing," he said first seeing this portrait. After graduation he stayed six months in little guest-room open-doored behind him. March 13, 1995.

1995

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 24 cm (9 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.145.44

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: David Greenberg, Phi Beta Kappa Rutgers U. '93, Poet, art curator & essayist, / guitar-singer Indie-Rock group "Pen Pal", co-editor Soft Skull Press, Great friend / & scholar, fresh from 24th birthday head-shave: when you look at it closer / it doesn't look menacing," he said first seeing this portrait. After graduation he / stayed six months in little guest-room open-doored behind him. March 13, 1995.; 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 right in graphite: signed 4/20/95 AG. / ✓ / 3/13/95 / Neg 10; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-265; bottom right in graphite: GDC-827

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