She looked homeless and vivid sitting on the steps of the clinic or Library on 2'nd Avenue as I passed her walking to Gem Spa sometime October 1984., 1984

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20 × 29.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 27.7 × 35.2 cm (10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.78

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: She looked homeless and vivid sitting on the steps of the clinic or Library on 2’nd Avenue as / I passed her walking to Gem Spa sometime October 1984. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: Oct '84 / Pg 224/9531; lower center: GD-AG-376; lower right: GDC-838

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.