William Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into books not published till decades later (as Queer, 1985) Lower East Side Fall 1953.

1953, printed 1990

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a man standing on a rooftop. He is standing straight with his right arm raised to his forehead. The man's facial features include a long face with high cheekbones, and he is wearing glasses. He has short, closely cropped hair and is dressed in a short-sleeved, dark polo shirt and dark trousers with a visible belt. There is no noticeable jewelry or objects being held. In the background, there are rooftop structures, metal tanks, antennas, and an urban skyline with buildings in the distance.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.9 x 17.7 cm (10 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.103.4

  • 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, 2009.

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. 39.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: William Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into books not published till decades later (as Queer, 1985) Lower East Side Fall 1953.; on verso, by artist's hand, across upper center in graphite: Print Sid Kaplan 9/90 Signed Allen Ginsberg 9/27/90; by unknown hand, across lower center: 23/217

Wikidata ID

Q64073269

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