Wandering Motel rooms San Francisco Portland Seattle & Kenyon College one month, poetry readings, book signings, interviews, I snapped self-portraits in clothes closet & bathroom mirrors midnights before bed whenever I saw full length views & doubled reflections. Sometime September 1991., 1991

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28.7 x 19 cm (11 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2009.103.28

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Wandering Motel rooms San Francisco Portland Seattle & Kenyon College one month, poetry readings, book signings, interviews, I snapped self-portraits in clothescloset & bathroom mirrors midnights before bed whenever I saw full length views & doubled reflections. Sometime September 1991.; on verso, by unknown hand, across upper left in graphite: 1991; across lower center: GD-AG-272; across lower right: 9/9/91 GDC-665; across center stamped in black: Photograph By Allen Ginsberg COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fax 212-675-1686

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

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. 96.