Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Minsk, Belarusia, Soviet Union, a visit by U.S. Literary delegation, planned sightseeing, our yuppie-Russian interpreter left, novelist Wm. Gass second from Right, the rest of our writers & delegates had wandered away down marble halls.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.3 × 33.1 cm (8 3/4 × 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
    mount: 40.6 × 51.1 cm (16 × 20 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.184.44

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: Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Minsk, Biyelorussia [sic], Soviet Union, a visit by U.S. Literary / delegation, planned sightseeing, our yuppie-Russian interpreter left, novelist Wm. Gass second / from Right, the rest of our writers & delegates had wandered away down marble halls.; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-21; bottom right in graphite: GDC-948

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