Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East Side Manhattan June 6, 1993.

1993, printed 1994

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

In the foreground of the image, there is a vase with wilting sunflowers on a windowsill. Behind it, a lush canopy of leafy trees fills the view through the window. The color palette is black and white. The vase is centered on the windowsill, with the sunflowers leaning slightly. Below it, printed materials are placed on the sill, and handwriting fills the lower part of the image. Through the window, the branches and leaves of the trees occupy most of the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 27 × 17.8 cm (10 5/8 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.118.76

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: Midsummer leafage on Ailanthus Trees & backyard bushes in / slight breeze, looks like 68°, guests had brought sunflowers the / night before, gay club news on windowsill, I’d looked out my / kitchen window with camera weekly almost a decade now, the garden / courtyard cleaned and swept neat, East 12th street lower East / Side Manhattan June 6, 1993. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 10/30/94; center stamped in black ink: Photgraph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower right stamped in black ink with graphite notations: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR 6/6/93 / LOCATION NEW YORK / IMAGE # 1962117 NEG. #17 / SLEEVE # / PRINTED BY SID KAPLIN (10/94) / NOTE LOOKING OUT A.G.'s KITCHEN WINDOW; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-270; bottom right: GDC-743

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