All dressed up with tie & tweed jacket, recently matriculated for M.A. at U.C. Berkeley, I'd just written Part II Howl, Supermarket in California, & Sunflower Sutra, clean-shaven poet, on Berkeley Street lighting a coffin-nail, camera in Peter Orlovsky's hands, 1956., 1956, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28.9 × 18.9 cm (11 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)

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

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2015.163.38

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: All dressed up with tie & tweed jacket, recently matriculated / for M.A. at U.C. Berkeley, I'd just written Part II _Howl_, _Super- / market in California_, & _Sunflower Sutra_, clean-shaven poet, / on Berkely [sic] Street lighting a coffin-nail, camera in Peter Orlovsky's / hands, 1956.; on verso, by artist, upper left in graphite: Signed 6/15/91 AG; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 37/910/1955; top right in graphite circled: #96; lower right in graphite circled: MS; bottom left in graphite: ✓; bottom left in graphite circled: #29; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-383; bottom right in graphite: GDC-821

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.