Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness alterations in Literature & American Heart Land, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953., 1953, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.84 × 30 cm (7 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 27.94 × 35.24 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2010.137.5

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, along bottom in black ink: Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness Alterations in Literature & [?] American Heartland, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left, in black ink on label: 44; upper left, in graphite: 4b [?]; by artist's hand, lower left in graphite: 1953 / # 16/150 / Brian Grahm Print

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.