Gregory Corso & Nile, Grant Street in front of Trieste Coffeeshop San Francisco March 16, 1985

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a man holding a young child on a city street. The man is standing sideways and looking at the camera. He has medium-length tousled hair and a neutral facial expression, wearing a leather jacket over a collared shirt with a loosely tied tie. The child, wrapped in a padded jacket and wearing a knit hat, is nestled in the man's arms, also looking towards the camera. In the background, there is an urban setting with a parked car, part of a motorcycle or scooter, and a building with arched windows partially obscured by trees. Handwritten text at the bottom provides context about the subjects and location.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 × 18.7 cm (7 9/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.12

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: Gregory Corso & Nile, Grant Street in front of Trieste Coffeeshop / San Francisco March 16, 1985; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite crossed out: Bk 1 #60E / env 11; upper center in graphite: 3/16/85; center left in graphite: 302/11,905; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-172; bottom right in graphite: GDC-565

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