Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' Naked Lunch editor at 1959 Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of Classic Sheeper (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October 12, 1984, we hadn't seen each other for several years, I was on my way to China--
1984
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: 20.8 × 20.1 cm (8 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.31
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: Irving Rosenthal, Burroughs' Naked Lunch editor at 1959 / Chicago Review, Big Table Magazine, & Grove Press, author of / Classic Sheeper (Grove, N.Y. 1967) prose, here at home an / anonymous commune in San Francisco-- A visit October / 12, 1984, we hadn't seen eachother [sic] for several years, I was / on my way to China--; on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: 103; upper center in grease pencil circled and inverted: 34; center right in grease pencil: Bk1 #43 / Oct 12 84; center right in graphite: #233/9,834; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-377; bottom right in graphite: GDC-721; bottom right in graphite: 24; bottom right in grease pencil: X