Joe Richey poet Crosslegged on Floor, St. Marks Poet Bob Holman eyeglassed leaning back, Tom Savage standing cross-armed, Jose CORONEL Urtecho in Beret elder Nica poet modernist, Sandinista Bluefields poet Carlos Rigby at Table, host smiling in head chair, Nicaraguan Poetry brigade folk listening to sound poem on cassette by Dr. Fernando Silva, "Cici" Fernandez' house, Granada, Nicaragua, January 26, 1986.
1986
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: 15.8 × 23.5 cm (6 1/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.165.4
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: Joe Richey poet Crosslegged on Floor, St. Marks Poet Bob Holman eyeglassed leaning back, Tom / Savage standing cross-armed, Jose CORONEL Urtecho in Beret elder Nica poet modernist, Sandino- / rasta [sic] Bluefields poet Carlos Rygbe [sic] at Table, host smiling in head chair, Nicaraguan Poetry / brigade folk listening to sound poem on cassette by Dr. Fernando Silva, "Cici" Fernandez' / house, Grenada [sic], Nicaragua, January 26, 1986.; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: Bk 7 #46 Neg #4; lower center in grease pencil circled: 140; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-162; bottom right in graphite: GDC-509