Visit with Julius Orlovsky, hadn't seen him several years, now age 56, front parlor in small town Kirkwood N.Y. residence where with half-dozen Binghamton State Hospital patients subsidized by state funds he was supervised by Mr. & Mrs. Finch in their large family house, April 4, 1987.
1987
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: 29.3 × 19.5 cm (11 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.165.34
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York), 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Visit with Julius Orlovsky, hadn't seen him several years, / now age 56, front parlor in small town Kirkwood N.Y. residence / where with half-dozen Binghamton State Hospital patients sub- / sidized by state funds he was supervised by Mr. & Mrs. Finch / in their large family house, April 4, 1987.; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #41 VE; top right in graphite circled: #81; upper left in graphite: 73; center in graphite: page 52; lower right in graphite: 752/24,538; lower right in graphite underlined: first; lower right in graphite: 4/11[crossed out, by unknown hand in black ink: 4]/87 / Neg #20; bottom left in graphite circled: 148; bottom center in graphite: Leica Camera Panatomic film 32A5A; bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-292; bottom right in graphite: GDC-816