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

Inscription

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.

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