Peter Wolf, musician-singer at Ellie Dorfman's living room table February 1, 1985 -- Cambridge, Franklin Street.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image shows a man seated at a table. He is leaning slightly forward with his arms resting on the table. He has a lean face with light complexion and slightly tousled dark hair. He wears a dark t-shirt with a leather vest. There is a cup with a spoon on the saucer in front of him. In the background, there is a cabinet with a vase of long-stemmed flowers and a framed painting of a young child. A poster with text is visible on the wall.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.4 × 30.4 cm (8 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.26

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: Peter Wolf, musician-singer at Ellie Dorfman's living room table February 1, 1985-- / Cambridge, Franklin Street.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: #287/11,715; lower right in graphite: 2/1/85 / B.K.1 #53A env 10 [underlined] / Neg 14A; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-336; bottom right in graphite: GDC-676

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