Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, September 5, 1984.
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: 28.8 × 19.4 cm (11 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.184.37
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: Nicanor Parra Anti-Poet, Professor of Newtonian Physics, / University of Santiago Chile, my host a month 1960. We couldn't / get a cab downtown from his daughter Catalina on 110 Street N.Y.C. / so took subway to N.Y.U. -- here stopped between stations, Sep- / tember 5, 1984.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Oct [crossed out] Sept 6 84 / Bk1 #36 [crossed out] / neg 8A-9 / #225/9535 / 110; top left in graphite: #69 VE; top right in graphite circled: #57; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-356; bottom right in graphite: GDC-823