Oliver Ray, aspiring writer, adept at word processors, one time archivist in Francesco Clemente's Manhattan studio, recent Calvin Klein ad model, drove from N.Y. to Ann Arbor to attend Patti Smith & myself at Buddhist money benefit performance- limping from legs broken in fall off Mexican Ocean Cliffside one night months before. -- here in Shaman Drum store for Patti Smith's Early Work book signing, February 17, 1995, 1995

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 29.4 × 19.7 cm (11 9/16 × 7 3/4 in.)

sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2017.165.19

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: Oliver Ray, aspiring writer, adept at word processors, one time arch- / ivist in Francesco Clemente's Manhattan studio, recent Calvin Klein / ad model, drove from N.Y. to Ann Arbor to attend Patti Smith & my- / self at Buddhist money benefit performance- limping from legs / broken in fall off Mexican Ocean Cliffside one night months before. -- / here in Shaman Drum store for Patti Smith's _Early Work_ book signing, / February 17, 1995; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #100 VE; top right in graphite: 2/7/95 / Neg 31; center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: ✓; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-238; bottom right in graphite: GDC-612

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.