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 Plexiglas 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.
1987
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: 21.7 × 32.6 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 37.8 cm (13 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.165.25
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: 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