William Burroughs ready to leave "the Bunker" for supper, he was visiting New York staying in his former Bowery loft, maybe back from Europe where he was awarded rosette Chevalier des Arts, visible below the round American Institute of Arts & Letters pin on his lapel, very distinguished gentleman, March 26, 1985, just beginning his late additional career as a painter.
Allen Ginsberg
1985
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 25.3 × 25 cm (9 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 41.9 × 31.4 cm (16 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2015.163.11
About the Artist
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), born in Newark, New Jersey, emerged as a multifaceted figure in American culture, best known as a Beat Generation poet but also a prolific visual artist whose photographs, drawings, and prints captured the raw energy of his era. His early life offers little documentation on artistic training, though he attended Columbia University in the 1940s, where he formed connectio...