Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. Naked Lunch letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' Interzone word-hoard, his own On the Road just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
1957, printed 1996
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.32 × 30.48 cm (8 × 12 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2010.137.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with / eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, port / & custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. / carrying mss. Naked Lunch letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' / Interzone word-hoard, his own On The Road just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem". Jack left Tanger [sic] for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957. / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in pencil: # 27 VE; lower right, stamp in black ink with graphite addition: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR 4-1-57 / LOCATION TANGIER / IMAGE # 684 / SLEEVE # 49 / PRINTED BY SID KAPLAN / NOTE; by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: Captioned & signed / 9/26/96 / Allen Ginsberg; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-301; bottom right in graphite: GDC-614 AGI96 42