I got conscious of my kitchen breakfast-table window backyard’s seasons’ daily view, here morning snow-dropped window-sill, white roofed tool-shed, bare branched “trees of Heaven” (ailanthus), fences & fire-escapes lined with snow, N.Y. Times January 23, 1987.

1987

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a view from inside a room looking out through a window with a wooden sash. The window is divided into four panes by a crossbar. The scene outside is of snow-covered rooftops and ground, featuring brick buildings with fire escapes. The window is covered in snow and droplets. On the windowsill is a copy of The New York Times. The color palette is monochromatic with shades of gray to black.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.85 x 20.32 cm (11 3/4 x 8 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.108.6

  • 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. 99.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: I got conscious of my kitchen breakfast-table window backyard’s seasons’ daily view, here morning snow-dropped window-sill, white roofed tool-shed, bare branched “trees of Heaven” (ailanthus), fences & fire-escapes lined with snow, N.Y. Times January 23, 1987.

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