Formal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Playwright Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chairman/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from local writers—November 19, 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: 22.4 × 33.1 cm (8 13/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2018.196.29
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: Formal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Play- / write [sic] Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman / Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chair- / man/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians / wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from / local writers—November 19, 1985.; on verso of mat, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-26; bottom right: GDC-942