Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.
1962, printed later
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 × 45.5 cm (11 13/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.196.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at / Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to / ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-5; bottom right: GDC-588