Lois Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder presenting birthday cake April 2, 1986., 1986

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28 × 18.8 cm (11 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.5 × 27.6 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.60

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Louis Snyder Hennessy in her 80th year Grass Valley / California, difficult mother, son Gary Snyder pre- / senting birthday cake April 2, 1986. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: #70 VE / 83; upper right circled: #73; center: page 85; lower right in black ink: Louis Snyder Hennessey / April 2, 1986; lower right in graphite: 3/20/86 [crossed out in black ink] Sleeve 552 / Image 18, 088; bottom center: GD-AG-310; bottom right: GDC-623

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.