John Wieners for me among top ten American poets visiting my room Park Plaza Hotel, Boston. We'd met 3 decades earlier at Cedar Bar, N.Y.-- Robert Creeley & Frank O'Hara both admired / his gifts then, Hotel Wentley Poems were published 1958 - - but none of his books were in print at the time of this visit February 1, 1985. Since then Raymond Foye edited 2 volumes-- all Wieners' Poetry -- For Black Sparrow Press.
1985
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: 19.7 × 29.6 cm (7 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.184.33
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: John Wieners for me among top ten American poets visiting my room Park Plaza Hotel, / Boston. We'd met 3 decades earlier at Cedar Bar, N.Y.-- Robert Creeley & Frank O'Hara both admired / his gifts then, Hotel Wentey [sic] Poems were published 1958 - - but none of his books were in print at the / time of this visit February 1, 1985. Since then Raymond Foye edited 2 volumes-- all Wieners' Poetry / -- For Black Sparrow Press.; on verso, by artist, center in graphite: Signed 6/15/91 A.G.; by unknown hand, center in graphite: BK1 #53A [crossed out] neg 7A / Feb 85; lower right in graphite: #287/11,708; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-334; bottom right in graphite: GDC-748; bottom right in graphite: EG