Lois Snyder Hennessy in her living-room Grass Valley California, her son the Poet Gary Snyder found her a house in town near his Sierra Mountains homestead, we visited together, her 82'nd year, Robert Frank liked this snapshot., c. 1988

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28 × 18.6 cm (11 × 7 5/16 in.)

sheet: 42 × 32 cm (16 9/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
mount: 49.8 × 39.8 cm (19 5/8 × 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2016.184.41

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: Lois Snyder Hennessy in her living-room Grass Valley / California, her son the Poet Gary Snyder found her a house / in town near his Sierra Mountains homestead, we visited to- / gether, her 82'nd year, Robert Frank liked this snapshot.; across bottom of mount printed in black ink on applied paper: Lois Snyder Hennessy dans son salon à Grass Valley, Californie, son fil le poète Gary Snyder lui avait trouvé une maison en ville près de son ranch dans les montagnes / Sierra, nous sommes allés la voir ensemble, sa 82ème année, Robert Frank aimait cet instantané.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-113; bottom right in graphite: GDC-894; bottom left of mount in graphite circled: #45; bottom center of mount in graphite: Image #3207; bottom center of mount in graphite: GD_AG-113; bottom right of mount in graphite: GDC-894

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.