John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York "Robert Johnson's the only one? “and Dylan? “True”.

1986, printed 1990

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.3 × 19.9 cm (11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.163.19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: John Hammond on his sick-bed, heart illness, a month before / his death, his apartment on Sutton Place, December 4, 1986, New York / "Robert Johnson's the only one? "and Dylan? "True".; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: AG-9/22/90 Signed / 12/4-5/86 / Neg #10 / Leica; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-302; bottom right in graphite: GDC-654

Wikidata ID

Q64073736

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