Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace — Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these “Darlovsky Brothers” in Desolation Angels —we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956., 1956, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20.5 x 32.6 cm (8 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

sheet: 31.8 x 41.9 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2008.131.9

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Lafcadio & Peter Orlovsky their apartment in San Francisco Potrero Hill 5 Turner Terrace - Peter had brought his younger brother to stay with us and go to High School a year earlier, Kerouac wrote about these "Darlovsky Brothers" in _Desolation Angels_ - we took off later for Mexico with Gregory Corso to visit Kerouac same year 1956.

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

Exhibition History

2010: Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2010 - 2013, no. 57.