San Francisco "K." Commune feeds hundreds of homeless folk on Saturdays and their Small Free Inn Band puts on a show, we had a private viewing when visiting Irving Rosenthal & Friends May 23, 1988-- in their vegetarian-grain soup-kitchen, Jimmy Gutierrez in cap watching Jeannie- single hand to heart John O'Brien first time in Curlers, Chandler hand raised in lyric surprise, shadow-eyed Gren behind music stand. "I saw it in a millinery shop-window in 1928... They look like they're made of wax," Harry Smith noticed later.
1988
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: 22.2 × 33.4 cm (8 3/4 × 13 1/8 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2017.165.24
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: San Francisco "K." Commune feeds hundreds of homeless folk on Saturdays and their Small Free Inn Band / puts on a show, we had a private viewing when visiting Irving Rosenthal & Friends May 23, 1988-- in / their vegetarian-grain soup-kitchen, Jimmy Gutierrez in cap watching Jeannie- single hand to heart John / O'Brien first time in Curlers, Chandler hand raised in lyric surprise, shadow-eyed Gren behind music / stand. "I saw it in a millinery shop-window in 1928... They look like they're made of wax," Harry Smith noticed later.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: 991/31,742; lower right in black ink: ok; lower right in graphite: 5/23/88 / Neg #7; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-285; bottom right in graphite: GDC-668