Donald Cook and his son Michael, an apartment near Columbia University, Francis Mechner in background, young psychology grad students. Later they proposed innovating Basic Systems Computer teaching machines. New York, Fall 1953.
1953, printed 1990
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: 25.6 × 25 cm (10 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 41.9 × 31.9 cm (16 1/2 × 12 9/16 in.)
mount: 49.8 × 39.9 cm (19 5/8 × 15 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.196.28
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: Donald Cook and his son Michael, an apartment near Columbia University, / Francis Mechner in background, young psychology grad students. Later / they proposed innovating Basic Systems Computer teaching machines. New / York, Fall 1953.; on verso, by artist, upper center in graphite: [illegible]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-49; bottom right: GDC-910; bottom left of mount in graphite circled: #14; bottom center of mount in graphite: Image # 14; bottom center of mount: GD-AG-49; bottom right of mount: GDC-910