Watching out my kitchen table window for five years now, first leaves on ailanthus trees, rainy day strong wind—I’d snapped photos nearly every week watching the seasons change—here May 18, 1989 from East 12th Street, Lower East Side Manhattan., 1989, printed 1994

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27 × 17.7 cm (10 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.69

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Watching out my kitchen table window for five / years now, first leaves on ailanthus trees, rainy day / strong wind—I’d snapped photos nearly every week watching the / seasons change—here May 18, 1989 from East 12th Street, Lower / East Side Manhattan. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, center in graphite: Caption 10/30/94 / AG; lower right stamped in black ink with notations in blue ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR 5/12/89 / LOCATION New York / IMAGE # 36,840 / SLEEVE # 1156 / PRINTED BY Sid Kaplin (10/94) / NOTE; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-282; bottom right: GDC-700

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.