Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987
1987, printed 1996
Allen Ginsberg
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: 23.8 × 23.9 cm (9 3/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.184.21
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: Dr. R.D. Laing, friend & sympatico Anti-psychiatry radical, his front porch / Mapleton Street. After two years' visiting faculty at Naropa Institute & / some stormy drinking, he was planning departure, lecture tour voyage. / Boulder, Colorado, July 7, 1987; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: Signed 5/29/96 / AG; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-291; bottom right in graphite: GDC-671
Wikidata ID
Q64073815