Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987

1987, printed 1996

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.8 × 23.9 cm (9 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.184.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch / Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & / some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. / Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: Signed 5/29/96 / AG; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-291; bottom right in graphite: GDC-671

Wikidata ID

Q64073815

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