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

Inscription

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

Provenance

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

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