Keith Haring visiting his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street September 23, 1989.

1989

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This is a black-and-white photograph of a store showcasing artwork and merchandise, including shirts, hats, and calendars, covered with bold line drawings of people and animals. The shop walls are covered in black and white patterns, and those patterns continue onto the wooden boards of the floor. On the right is an opening in the wall with a person standing behind it in front of more merchandise and looking down. In the center of the photograph, a man stands in front of the opening, looking upward. The man has pale skin and dark hair, and has thin, round glasses perched on his nose. He wears a striped black-and-white shirt with dark pants and chunky white sneakers. At the bottom of the photograph is a line of handwritten text.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.3 × 18.3 cm (10 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.165.37


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: Keith Haring visiting his Pop Shop on Lafayette Street / September 23, 1989.; on verso, by unknown hand, center left in graphite: 9/23/89 / 1221/39033; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-280; bottom right in graphite: GDC-833


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