Kay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn, / up for nights, head bowed against a quiet window / the past behind me…” Marriage, 1958.

1984

Allen Ginsberg

Artist, American, 1926 - 1997

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.7 × 29.2 cm (8 15/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.196.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Kay MacDonough, their son Nile, and Gregory Corso at home, Telegraph Hill San Fran- / cisco October 12, 1984… “and she gives birth to a child and I am sleepless, worn,/up for nights, / head bowed against a quiet window/the past behind me…” Marriage, 1958.; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in graphite perpendicular: 105; lower right in blue pencil: Oct 12-13; lower right in graphite: 1984 Sleeve 233 / Image 9837; bottom center: GD-AG-375; bottom right: GDC-815

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