Ken Kesey midnight -- lamp'd at Hotel Excelsior w. 81st St. Manhattan, he'd performed his Bear-myth Cantata at Lincoln Center, brief visit to N.Y., his son recently perished in athlete tour-bus crash Northwest. December 14, 1989., 1989

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 18.7 × 18.8 cm (7 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25 × 20.1 cm (9 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.48

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Ken Kesey, midnight – lamp’d at Hotel Excelsior w. 81’st St. Man - / hattan, he’d performed his Bear-Myth Cantata at Lincoln center, / brief visit to N.Y., his son recently perished in athlete tour-bus crash / northwest. December 14, 1989. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: 12/14/89 / Neg #14; upper center in graphite: # 1253A/not cataloged; lower center: GD-AG-159; lower right: GDC-499

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.