Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953., 1953, printed 1989

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.86 × 33.5 cm (9 × 13 3/16 in.)

sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary S. Davis

Accession Number

2010.137.25

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Jack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, / view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. / Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953. Allen Ginsberg; on verso by unknown hand (Sid Kaplan?), upper left in graphite: Sid Kaplan printed / 12/89 / 53/10/111; by artist's hand, upper left in graphite: Signed 4/24/90 / Allen Ginsberg; by artist's hand, center in graphite: 12-Trees Orig; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: MS; by artist's hand, lower left in graphite: page 17; bottom center, rubber stamp in black ink: © ALLEN GINSBERG TRUST / Trustee, Bob Rosenthal / ________ / This photograph was printed before 4/5/97 / under the supervision of Allen Ginsberg; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-241; bottom right in graphite: GDC-842; bottom right in graphite (inverted) #6

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary S. Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.