Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua, January 1986.

1986

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows three individuals in varying positions. The first person is standing beside a truck with a wooden flatbed filled with what seem to be carcasses. This man covers himself with a large cloth or blanket, with curly hair and an unreadable facial expression. The second person stands on the flatbed wearing a knit cap, a collared shirt, and trousers, looking down. The third person, a young boy, stands on the flatbed wearing a checked short-sleeved shirt and pants, smiling toward the camera. In the background, there is a building with a prominent overhanging roof and wires crisscrossing the sky, with a street extending into the distance.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.1 × 15.6 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Meat delivery, Bluefields Nicaragua January 1986.; on verso, by artist, upper center in graphite: Bluefields, Nicaragua; center right in graphite: BLUE Fields.[circled] / East Coast Nicaragua; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 70% 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 p106 / Do Not Crop Words; top right in graphite: Jan 1986; center left in graphite: IMAGE # 17,223 / PAGE # 525 / BOOK 6; center in grease pencil: 81; lower right in grease pencil: X; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-161; bottom right in graphite: GDC-508

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