Richard Baker Roshi whose teacher was Suzuki Roshi soon after he stepped down as Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center to found Santa Fé, N.M. & Crestone Colorado Zen Meditation Centers, and give transmission to Philip Whalen, Sensei. Here visiting apartment on East 12’th Street after return from East Europe where he’d taught zen sitting groups, we caught up on our samsaric adventures. Baker Roshi had hosted 1965 U.C. Berkeley Poets’ convocation, we’d remained friends, especially thru his kindness to poet Whalen whom he’d invited to S.F. Zen. Center. N.Y. Fall 1984.
1984, printed 1994
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: 19.2 × 29 cm (7 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.91
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: Richard Baker Roshi whose teacher was Suzuki Roshi soon after he stepped down as Abbot / of San Francisco Zen Center to found Santa Fé, N.M. & Crestone Colorado Zen Meditation Centers, / and give transmission to Philip Whalen, Sensei. Here visiting apartment on East 12’th Street after re- / turn from East Europe where he’d taught zen sitting groups, we caught up on our samsaric adven- / tures. Baker Roshi had hosted 1965 U.C. Berkeley Poets’ convocation, we’d remained friends, especially / thru his kindness to poet Whalen whom he’d invited to S.F. Zen. Center. N.Y. Fall 1984. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; by unknown hand, lower right stamped in black ink with graphite notations: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR 1984 / LOCATION NEW YORK / IMAGE # 9501 / SLEEVE # 224 / PRINTED BY BRIAN GRAHAM / NOTE; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-354; bottom right: GDC-677