Acting tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & relaxed together, Gutterboy on the roof, Empire State building a distant spire, East Twelfth Street September 12, 1991.

1991

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 24.3 cm (9 7/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.9 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.165.21

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: Acting tough, indifferent, sexy, self absorbed forward looking & re / laxed together, Gutterboy on the roof, Empire State building a distant / spire, East Twelfth Street September 12, 1991.; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 10; bottom center in graphite: GD-AD-274; bottom right in graphite: GDC-639

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