Poet Philip Whalen, Jerry Heiserman (later Hassan, Sufi) & student Thomas Jackrell (who'd writ interesting document-poem on Campbell's Soup) en route thru Portland Oregon returning from Vancouver Poetry Conference (with Olson Creeley Duncan Levertov) back to Bay Area, July 1963. Jackrell had a camper truck, we stopped to visit Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College, drink Buttermilk downtown.

1963, printed later

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows three men in an urban setting. One man is standing, wearing glasses and a dark coat, holding a piece of paper and a pen in his coat pocket. Two other men are sitting on the ground next to him. One man has a short haircut, while the other has a short beard and mustache with longer, slicked-back hair. They are seated against a window with a religious-themed sign. In the background is a building with a numbered door, 321, possibly a storefront. By the seated men, there is a bouquet of flowers and an empty bottle. A handwritten annotation at the bottom provides context about the men and the occasion, detailing the event and time of the photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.4 × 29.5 cm (8 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.163.36

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: Poet Philip Whalen, Jerry Heiserman (later Hassan, Sufi) & student Thomas Jackrell (who'd writ / interesting document- poem on Campbell's Soup) en route thru Portland Oregon returning from Vancou- / ver Poetry Conference (with Olson Creeley Duncan Levertov) back to Bay Area, July 1963. Jackrell / had a camper truck, we stopped to visit Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College, drink Buttermilk / downtown.; on verso, by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 6/15/91 A.G. / Image 1419 / 1963 Sleeve 66; by unknown hand, top right in graphite: #87; upper right in graphite circled: MS; bottom left in graphite: ✓ / xx; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-350; bottom right in graphite: GDC-811; bottom right in graphite: AGI96 7

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