Philip Whalen, sensei in his peaceful chair, my apartment living room, East 12th street New York March 1984. He was visiting East Coast to give readings N.Y. and Buffalo, Calm Poet. "What are you reading?" -- "I'm not reading I'm just turning the pages."
1984
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
-
Medium
gelatin silver print
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
image: 18.5 × 27.5 cm (7 5/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: PHILIP Whalen, sensei in ^his peaceful chair, my apartment living room, East 12th street New York March 1984. / He was visiting East Coast to give readings N.Y. and Buffalo, Calm Poet. / "What are you reading?" -- "I'm not reading I'm just turning the pages."; on verso, by artist, lower right in graphite perpendicular: [illegible]; by artist, lower right in graphite: Book/#9A / Neg 1A; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #46VE; top right in graphite circled: #48; upper left in graphite: TGO; center in graphite: page 58; center right in graphite perpendicular: 58; lower center in graphite: 12 Tres; lower right in graphite: 182/8245; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-368; bottom right in graphite: GDC-646; bottom right in graphite: 54