Lafcadio, 17, and Peter Orlovsky, 22, at door their apartment 5 Turner Terrace, S.F. 1956, Lafcadio looking for a job was cutting school, Peter was worried. These were new-built cheap rent veteran's apartments on Potrero Hill dominated by a giant gas tank.
1956, printed 1995
Allen Ginsberg
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: 29.21 × 19.21 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 35.24 × 27.94 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.) -
Accession Number
2010.137.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA 2010.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, along bottom in black ink: Lafcadio, 17, and Peter Orlovsky, 22, at door their apartment 5 Turner Terrace, S.F. / 1956, Lafcadio looking for a job was cutting school, Peter was worried. These were / new-built cheap rent veteran's apartments on Potrero Hill dominated by a giant gastank [sic]. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand (artist?), upper center in graphite: page 23; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: T18; bottom right in graphite: #23; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-103; lower right in graphite: #37/626 / BK5 #32A / 1955; bottom right in graphite: GDC-658; bottom right in graphite: 29