Wavy Gravy & his rubber nose, giant Seva Benefit organized by Ram Dass at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan November 26, 1988, seven thousand souls attending, Wavy the M.C. for part of the evening, here in a side chapel south of the altar.

1988

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary S. Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 21.6 x 32.7 cm (8 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.6 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.103.27

  • Copyright

    Copyright (c) 2010 The Allen Ginsberg LLC. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

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. 90.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Wavy Gravy & his rubber nose, giant Seva Benedict organized by Ram Dass at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan November 26, 1988, seven thousand souls attending, Wavy the M. C. for part of the evening, here in a side chapel south of the altar.; on verso, by unknown hand, across lower center in graphite: GD-AG-283; in upper left corner: #92 [inscribed in a circle]; across upper left: #44 VE; across center left: Page 56; in upper right corner: MS [inscribed in a circle]; across lower right: 35911 11. 26. 88 May 24 GDC-817; in lower right corner: AGI96 29

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