Peter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broadway Tunnel, Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remittance man was seen by Kerouac (Desolation Angels) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her roof to death a year late. March 1955.
1955, printed 1995
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.8 × 30.1 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.41
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: Peter Du Peru, Neal Cassady & Natalie Jackson horsing around, maybe Sunday walk, above Broad- / way Tunnell [sic], Neal playing hookey from his family in Los Gatos. Du Peru, eccentric North Beach remit- / tance man was seen by Kerouac (Desolation Angels) as "Richard de Chili, the Mysterious...with his / low-spoken incomprehensible remarks." Natalie bewildered by amphetamine jumped off her / roof to death a year late. March 1955.; on verso, by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 4/27/95 / AG; lower right stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR / LOCATION / IMAGE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 564] / SLEEVE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 43] / PRINTED BY / NOTE; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-65; bottom right in graphite: GDC-846