Foyer & arcade at Entrance to Josef Stalin Birthplace Museum, Gori, Georgia Soviet Union-- truck drivers on the road to nearby Vani & Tbilisi still had Stalin-face stickers on their windshields. Outside Lendava marble shelter at the wooden birth-house itself, small rooms low ceilings I remember. Not many people in the museum, first weeks of Glasnost, December 7, 1985.
1985
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: 30.4 × 20.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
mount: 51.3 × 40.6 cm (20 3/16 × 16 in.) -
Accession
2016.184.42
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: Foyer & arcade at Entrance to Josef Stalin Birthplace Museum, Gori, Georgia / Soviet Union-- truck drivers on the road to nearby Vanni [sic] & Tibilise [sic] still had / Stalin-face stickers on their windshields. Outside Lendeva [sic] marble shelter at / the wooden birth-house itself, small rooms low cielings [sic] I remember. Not many / people in the museum, first weeks of Glasnost, December 7, 1985.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center of mount in graphite: GD-AG-132; bottom right of mount in graphite: GDC-903