Ken Kesey—Merry Pranksters’ day-glo painted “Further” cross-country bus Neal Cassady’d driven S.F. to Manhattan, L.S.D. cool-aid pitcher in icebox for local hitchhikers and Police, here stopped for gas lunch upstate on trip to Timothy Leary’s Millbrook n.y. psychedelic research commune just before election time, “A Vote For Barry Is A Vote for Fun” logo painted large across bustop side, Goldwater the libertarian Republican would-be Presidential candidate Hawk during Vietnam War, summer 1964.
1964, printed 1995
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 44.2 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
sheet: 40.3 × 50.5 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.90
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: Ken Kesey—Merry Pranksters' day-glo painted “Further” cross-country bus Neal Cassady’d driven S.F. to Man- / hattan, L.S.D. cool-aid pitcher in icebox for local hitchhikers and Police, here stopped for gas lunch upstate on / trip to Timothy Leary’s Millbrook n.y. psychedelic research commune just before election time, “A Vote For / Barry Is A Vote for Fun” logo painted large across bustop side, Goldwater the libertarian Republican would be Pres- / idential candidate Hawk during Vietnam War, summer 1964. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 4/27/95 / A.G; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-75; bottom right: GDC-998