Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, Lower East Side. Gregory Corso was with him, he looked just like his late Father (described in The Town and the City his first novel) - corpulent red faced W. C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. psychedelic I'd brought back from Timothy Leary's Millbrook Commune, Fall 1964., 1964, printed 1990

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27.1 x 20 cm (10 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 42 x 32 cm (16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2008.131.31

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, Lower East Side. Gregory Corso was with him, he looked just like his late Father (discribed [sic] in _The Town and the City_ his first novel) - corpulent red faced W. C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. psychedelic I'd brought back from Timothy Leary's Millbrook Commune, Fall 1964.; on verso, by artist's hand, upper center in graphite: Fall / 1964 #68/1547 / SID Kaplan print / Signed A. Ginsberg 9/27/90

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.