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signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: My aunt Clara Lehman talking in mirror of her room, Daughters of Israel old-age Home, she's 83, her 91 year old / friend from down the hall visits, they gossip about television, my photo of Clara, her sister my aunt Honey & late / uncle Abe sitting together a year earlier in plexiglass [sic] frame by his elbow, photo of her daughters & grandchildren stuck / on mirror, I visit her every couple of weeks in West Orange, New Jersey, this was January 26, 1987-- she's / my father's younger sister. She'd retired to Miami, Florida, her second husband died, she had to come back to Jersey / where most of the family lives.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite inverted: #718/23495; lower right in graphite: Leica 1/26/87 / Neg #17 / TM'X 40 film; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-294; bottom right in graphite: GDC-672

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

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