Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback Junky edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.
1953, printed later
Allen Ginsberg
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: 29 x 42.4 cm (11 7/16 x 16 11/16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 x 50.3 cm (15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2008.131.2
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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 40.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he'd arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on Yage Letters and Queer Manuscripts - Ace Books'd printed first paperback Junky edition that Spring. "I come home from work (at N.Y. World-Telegram, newspaper copyboy) 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later...am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month --"as I wrote to Neal Cassedy, September 4, 1953.