Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

1953, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.8 × 25.9 cm (6 5/8 × 10 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.7 × 35.1 cm (10 7/8 × 13 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.118.75

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: William Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: #13/130 / BK5 #10A [crossed out] / 1953 neg 5; lower right stamped in black ink with graphite notations: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR / LOCATION / IMAGE # 128 / SLEEVE # 15 / PRINTED BY / NOTE; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-068; bottom right: GDC-734

Wikidata ID

Q64073619

You may be interested in

Loading Results