Two new wave youths met at Burroughs reading in Berkeley visited my N.Y. apartment January 11, 1985, I'd exchanged addresses with Blake, on left. His friend a Rimbaud reader holds Starkie biography of the original great punk poet I gave as present.
1985
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: 28.7 × 19.4 cm (11 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.13
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Two new wave youths met at Burroughs reading in Berk- / eley visited my N.Y. apartment January 11, 1985, I'd exchanged addresses with Blake, on left. His friend a Rimbaud reader / holds Starkie biography of the original great punk poet I / gave as present.; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite circled: #58; upper left in graphite: 102; center in graphite: page 88; lower right in graphite: #279/11,337 / Bk 1 #46 [crossed out] / 1/11/85; bottom left in graphite circled: #14; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-341; bottom right in graphite: GDC-609
Wikidata ID
Q64073722