John Giorno, Tibetan Nyingma Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer through Giorno Poetry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teachers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987.
1987, printed 1991
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: 24.8 × 25 cm (9 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2016.184.26
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: John Giorno, Tibetan N'yingma [sic] Buddhist Practitioner a senior U.S. student of / H.H. the late Ven. Dudjom Rinpoche whose N.Y. Center Giorno helped found. Poet / & Performance Artist, Giormo'd worked early with Andy Warhol ("Sleep") , Jasper Johns, / R. Rauschenberg and William Burroughs whose "Bunker" loft on Bowery he inherited / when W.S.B. removed to Lawrence Kansas. Innovative record producer thru [sic] Giorno Po- / etry Systems, he founded "Dial-a-Poem" via Museum of Modern art, N.Y. Here at / Board-room big table in Bunker, Giorno uses the space to host visiting Roma teach- / ers and Doctors. Burroughs visiting December 20, 1987.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: #914/29,667; lower center in graphite: Signed 7/29/91 / 12/20/87; lower right in graphite: Neg; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-288; bottom right in graphite: GDC-707