The Living Theater family departing founder Julian Beck's interment in North Jersey cemetery, September 19, 1985. Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach led widow actress- Judith Malina forward weeping goodbye, she's held by daughter Isha center holding hands with son Garrick Beck in beret, Judith's tall husband-to-be Hanon Reznikov gazing down behind them wearing yarmulke skull-cap; extreme right Anne Tardos with aleatory musician- Poet Jackson Machour. This anarchist- Pacifist artists' troupe anticipated in first Postwar U.S. Anti- Nuclear peace protest 1957, refusing with Catholic Workers group to enter A-Bomb shelter during New York state-wide war drill.

1985, printed 1992

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This black-and-white photograph shows a group of people in a cemetery. The people are standing near each other in a rough semi-circle. They all have pale skin and most have dark hair, expect for one man with white hair. They wear formal clothes, with the women in dresses and the men in shirts, jackets, and trousers. In the center of the photograph are two women with distressed expressions, one with her mouth open and the other with her brow furrowed and eyes closed. The background includes headstones, short grass, and tall trees. There is a handwritten note below the photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.5 × 33.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.3 cm (10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.36

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: The Living Theater family departing founder Julian Beck's interment in North Jersey cemetery, September 19, 1985. / Rabbi Schlomo Carlbach [sic] led widow actress- Judith Malina forward weeping goodbye, she's held by daughter / Isha center holding hands with son Garrick Beck in beret, Judith's tall husband-to-be Hanon Reznikoff [sic] gazing / down behind them wearing yarmulke skull-cap; extreme right Ann [sic] Tardos with aleatory musician- Poet Jack- / son Machour. This anarchist- Pacifist artists' troupe anticipated in first Postwar U.S. Anti- Nuclear peace protest 1957, / refusing with Catholic Workers group to enter A-Bomb shelter during New York state-wide war drill.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #104 VE; top right in graphite circled: 67; lower right in graphite: (454/15091) / Signed 7/29/92 AG; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-318; bottom right in graphite: GDC-828

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