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

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image depicts a man standing on a sidewalk, holding a cigarette in his mouth. He appears to be dressed in formal attire and is looking down at an object in his hands. The surroundings include parked cars, buildings, hills in the background, and a clear sky. Handwritten notes below the photo provide additional context.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.163.38

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: 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

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