“…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occurrence.” (See Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties , N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954.
1954, printed later
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.9 × 42.4 cm (11 × 16 11/16 in.)
sheet: 40.5 × 50.3 cm (15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.80
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: “…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most / venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on / steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occ- / urrence.” (See Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties [underlined], N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: V2 / JAN.1953 / 27/364 / Mexico; bottom center: GD-AG-100; bottom right: GDC-861