William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- Queer* & Yage letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment.,* 1953, printed 1993

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.8 × 22.7 cm (7 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

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

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2015.163.34

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- _Queer_ & _Yage_ letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 / -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment.; on verso, upper center printed in black ink on an applied label perpendicular: T4311; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: #23/221 / 1953 / Bk5 #15A [crossed out] / neg 7; bottom center stamped in black ink: © ALLEN GINSBERG TRUST / Trustee, Bob Rosenthal / This photograph was printed before 4/5/97 / under the supervision of Allen Ginsberg; lower right stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR [by unknown hand in graphite: 8/22/93 / LOCATION / IMAGE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 204] / SLEEVE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 26] / PRINTED BY / NOTE; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: GD-AG-243; bottom right in graphite: GDC-751

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

William S. Burroughs & Alene Lee -- Queer & Yage letters in progress or mss. finished by Fall 1953 -- here photo'd with Kodak Retina tiny camera on rooftop 206 East 7th St. my apartment., 1953, printed 1993