Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl in this room, S.F. 1955
1955, printed later
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: 15.6 × 23.5 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 25 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.50
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Robert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac’s / portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in Desolation Angels [underlined], “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. / we’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to / Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote Howl [underlined] in this room, S.F. 1955 Allen Ginsberg; on verso, lower center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPHY / ALLEN GINSBERG THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS / COPYRIGHTED. IT MAY / NOT BE REPRODUCED / WITHOUT WRITTEN / AUTHORIZATION; by unknown hand, center in graphite: [?]; bottom center: GD-AG-231; lower right: GDC-539