R.D. Laing in residence at Naropa Institute, planning to voyage on lecture tour, asked me to visit and make useful photograph. Boulder, Colorado July 7, 1987.

1987

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a man from the waist up seated on a bench. His body is slightly angled to the right, with his hands clasped together in his lap. The man has short, light-colored hair that is thinning and combed back, and his facial expression shows a subtle smile. He is wearing a dark suit with a light-colored dress shirt and a dark, diagonally striped tie. A folded pocket square is visible in the breast pocket of his suit jacket. The bench he is sitting on appears to be wooden with a slatted back, and beyond the bench, the background is a blurred outdoor scene with leafy trees. Handwritten text is at the bottom of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.3 × 17.1 cm (6 13/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.145.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: R.D. Laing in residence at Naropa Institute, planning / to voyage on lecture tour, asked me to visit and make useful / photograph. Boulder, Colorado July 7, 1987.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-155; bottom right in graphite: GDC-502

Wikidata ID

Q64073659

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