William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Junkie propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.

1953, printed 1995

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 x 29 cm (7 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 x 35.2 cm (11 x 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.5

  • 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. 41.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Junkie propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against lower East Side hot water flat's old wallpaper. He'd come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York, Fall 1953.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: GD-AG-17; upper left corner: # 16; across lower right: GDC-843 AGI96 11; across center right, possibly by artist's hand: signed 4/27/95 AG; across center, stamped in black ink: Photograph By Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FAX 212-675-1686; across lower center: © ALLEN GINSBERG TRUST Trustee, Bob Rosenthal ___________ This photograph was printed before 4/5/97 under the supervision of Allen Ginsberg

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