Gary Snyder and then-wife Masa Uehara after supper in the Kerosene-lit farmhouse kitchen at “Kitkitdizze” on San Juan Ridge, a Japanese style tile-roofed dwelling in park-like oak and Ponderosa pine woods 3000 feet up on Western slope of California Sierra Mountains, May 30, 1988.

1988

Allen Ginsberg

Associated Names
Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

This black-and-white photograph depicts a man and a woman sitting in front of a table in a kitchen. The man in the center has pale, wrinkled skin, short, wavy hair, and a gray beard and mustache. He is wearing a dark sweater, and his arms are crossed as he looks at us with a neutral expression. The woman is in front of him, towards the left. She has pale skin and dark, straight hair with bangs, and she is wearing a light sweater over a collared shirt. The woman is reading from a book or paper, her elbows resting on the table and her mouth slightly open. There are dishes and cups on the table to the left. Kitchen shelves filled with jars and a refrigerator can be seen in the background behind the man. Below the photograph are several lines of text.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.5 × 32.7 cm (8 7/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 32 × 42 cm (12 5/8 × 16 9/16 in.)
    mount: 39.8 × 49.9 cm (15 11/16 × 19 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.196.26

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: Gary Snyder and then-wife Masa Uehara after supper in the Kerosine-lit [sic] farmhouse kitchen at “Kitkitdizze” / on San Juan Ridge, a Japanese style tile-roofed dwelling in park-like oak and Ponderosa pine woods 3000 feet up / on Western slope of California Sierra Mountains, May 30, 1988.; lower left of mount printed in black ink on applied label: GDC0893; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-114; bottom right: GDC-893; bottom left of mount in graphite circled: #41; bottom center of mount in graphite: Image # 31966; bottom center of mount: GD-AG-114; bottom right of mount: GDC-893

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