John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

1986, printed 1990

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.3 × 19.9 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.163.19

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: John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before / his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York / "Robert Johnson's the only one? "and Dylan? "True".; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: AG-9/22/90 Signed / 12/4-5/86 / Neg #10 / Leica; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-302; bottom right in graphite: GDC-654

Wikidata ID

Q64073736

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