Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Ellen and Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT (through Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); gift to NGA, 2008.
Sandro Chia, his apartment-studio on West 20's in New York, Julian Schnabel's crockery portrait of him hung on wall, his shotgun on display - he'd been out target-practicing with W. S. Burroughs at Chia's house in Rhinebeck a weel before, had begun working with a text by Gregory Corso that season, April 1985.
1985
Accession Number
2008.131.17
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 34.5 x 34.4 cm (13 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.) | sheet: 50.2 x 4.5 cm (19 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Credit Line
Gift of Gary S. Davis
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Herbert E. Huncke, author _The Evening Sun Turned Crimson_, who introduced "hip" vocabulary & attitudes to writers later labeled "Beat", his room Hotel Elite, N.E. corner 8th Avenue and 51'st street diagonally opposite Madison Square Garden. Rare glimpse of Huncke, then hustling bread on Times Square, strung-out - he fixed at the sink. Saw him infrequently that season, though we'd known each other well since 1945, found his room to say good bye, leaving New York to hitch south, Mexico and Bay area, here just before Christmas, Manhattan 1953.
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