Dick McBride, returned from England where he'd been distributing City Lights Books, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline facing my shadow through the door of Cafe Trieste, Grant Street San Francisco, March 16, 1985.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This is a photograph of individuals at a café. The image shows the interior of the café, with people seated around a table near a large front window. The glass reflects the street scene outside. The setting appears casual and intimate. A sign on the window indicates the café's location. Personal items like cups and a sugar container are on the table. The photo is in black and white. There is handwriting on the lower part of the photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.9 × 22.9 cm (9 7/16 × 9 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.184.18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Dick McBride, returned from England where he'd been distributing City / Light Books, Shig Murao & Jack Micheline facing my shadow / thru [sic] the door of Cafe Trieste, Grant Street San Francisco, March / 16, 1985.; on verso, possibly by artist, lower right in graphite: Signed 6/15/91 AG; by unknown hand, top right in graphite circled: #86; lower right in graphite: 301/11,897 / March 16, 1985; bottom left in graphite perpendicular: ✓; bottom left in graphite circled: #15; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-332; bottom right in graphite: GDC-659

Wikidata ID

Q64073811

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