Ray Bremser, Jazz-bar sound-poetry genius, syncopating wow-sound word- / walloper, original N.Y. late-1950's Coffeshop bard with Kerouac & LeRoi Jones, his long-ago jail songs were noted by Bob Dylan in The Times They are a Changin'; at kitchen table March 15, 1987, he stayed over to read Poetry and teach my "Literary History of Beat Generation" Class Brooklyn College, come down from A.A. halfway house in Utica N.Y., rare trip to the Apple for survivor w/ big fine beard.
1987
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: 25.5 × 25.3 cm (10 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.20
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: Ray Bremser, Jazz-bar sound-poetry genius, syncopating wow-sound word- / walloper, original N.Y. late-1950's Coffeshop bard with Kerouac & LeRoi Jones, / his long-ago jail songs were noted by Bob Dylan in The Times They are a Changin'; / at kitchen table March 15, 1987, he stayed over to read Poetry and teach my / "Literary History of Beat Generation" Class Brooklyn College, come down from / A.A. halfway house in Utica N.Y., rare trip to the Apple for survivor w/ / big fine beard.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #60 VE; top center in graphite: 74; top right in graphite circled: #80; center in graphite: page 72; lower right in graphite: #734/23966 / 3/15/87 / Neg # 3; bottom let in graphite circled: 145; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-296; bottom right in graphite: GDC-655; bottom right in graphite: 25