Formal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Playwright Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chairman/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from local writers—November 19, 1985., 1985

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.4 × 33.1 cm (8 13/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2018.196.29

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Formal banquet speeches, meeting of American Academy of Arts & Letters delegates to Soviet Writer’s Union—Play- / write [sic] Arthur Miller head bowed stoic at left, Jacob Laurence white-collard in front of Miller, white haired Chairman / Fedorenko in horn-rimmed glasses leaning against wall looking up third from right, Lithuanian Writer’s Union Chair- / man/Chief gazing down at his notes at microphone, Buffet table as yet untouched—at the time the Russians / wanted to emphasize integrity of Society boundaries so meeting was deliberately held in Vilnius (in secret from / local writers—November 19, 1985.; on verso of mat, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-26; bottom right: GDC-942

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.