Kay MacDonough, Nile, & Gregory Corso March 16, 1985 San Francisco Front of Trieste Morning Hangout Coffeeshop Grant Street.

1985

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

The image depicts three people: a man holding a toddler, and a woman standing beside them. The man has tousled hair, wearing a jacket over a collared shirt. The woman has medium-length hair and is dressed in a long coat or jacket. The toddler is bundled in a warm jacket and wearing a knitted hat. The street setting shows a curb, a parking meter, a partial car, and a light-color building with vertically aligned windows and architectural detailing such as arches and decorative molding, as well as trees.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.5 × 17.9 cm (7 5/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.196.5


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Kay MacDonough, Nile, & Gregory Corso March 16, 1985 San Francisco / Front of Trieste Morning Hangout Coffeeshop Grant Street.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: BK1 # 62A / env 11; top right: 3/17/85 print; upper left: #306/11,955; bottom center: GD-AG-170; bottom right: GDC-523


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