Mock machete battle with state agricultural advisor, American girl passing through watching, elder Antonio the family retainer & nephew, Finca Tacalapan de San Leandro a day’s travel by river & horseback from Salto de Agua Railroad stops into edge of Petén Rainforest to old family land of Karena Shields (first Jane in 30s Tarzan movies) who hosted me February thru May, we’d met at Palenque old Mayan ruins nearby, & lived in open thatchroof shelter, slept in Mosquito-netted hammocks, I wrote “Siesta in Xbalba”, Chiapas Mexico 1954., 1954, printed 1995

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 × 28.7 cm (7 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)

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

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.86

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Mock machete battle with state agricultural advisor, American girl passing through watching, elder / Antonio the family retainer & nephew, Finca Tacalapan de San Leandro a day’s travel by / river & horseback from Salto de Agua Railroad stops into edge of Peten Rainforest to old family land / of Karena Shields (first Jane in 30s Tarzan movies) who hosted me February thru May, we’d met / at Palenque old Mayan ruins nearby, & lived in open thatchroof shelter, slept in Mosquito-netted / hammocks, & wrote “Siesta in Xbalba”, Chiapas Mexico 1954. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite: Signed 4/28/95 AG.; center stamped in black ink: From the archive of Allen Ginsberg / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 1954 / GC-26-IM 319-BKIA #26; bottom center: GD-AG-35; bottom right: GDC-947

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.