Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.
1962, printed later
Allen Ginsberg
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 30 × 45.5 cm (11 13/16 × 17 15/16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.196.12
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: Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook, Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at / Chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to / ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-5; bottom right: GDC-588