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Allen Ginsberg
Richard Avedon, his studio. Twenty years earlier he'd taken classic naked portrait of me & Peter Orlovsky, arms round each other's waists. He invited me back to pose the same, older. I brought my camera too, September 1984, New York, 1984, printed 1992
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
William Burroughs amusing himself with 1953's recent translation of St.-Jean Perse's _Vents_, living room floor 206 East 7th Street New York City, Fall '53., 1953, printed later
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Harry Smith, ethnomusicologist & Cat's Cradle string game expert, displaying "cat's whiskers" design. He'd been weakening malnourished in Franciscan shelter on N.Y. Bowery, came here to stay weeks in my apartment, we went together by plane to Naropa Institute Boulder Colorado where he was resident alchemist- philosopher at the Kerouac Poetics school for several years till his last trip back to Manhattan to receive Obie award for life - long preservation of American Folk Music, and death soon after in 1991 at the Chelsea Hotel., 1988, printed 1995
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Gary Snyder with Parka, Kausani...Himalayan backdrop, 1963 India, 1963, printed later
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Raymond Foye, who age 8 was Kerouac's newspaper delivery boy in Lowell, Mass. later working for City Lights edited Bob Kaufman's books (also for New Directions) & John Wieners' _Selected Poems_ for Black Sparrow; then senior Editor Hanuman books, arranged my collaborations with Francesco Clemente & catalogued my photo negatives '47-'85, curated first photo show. Xmas 1986 in Japanese restaurant 1st Ave + 10 Street Manhattan., 1986, printed 1991
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jack’s _The Subterraneans_ records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d sent from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee (“Mardou Fox” of _The Subterraneans_) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish & Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like “Leshkos” corner 7th & A, rent was only ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of “The Green Automobile” poem to Cassady, Fall 1953., 1953, printed 1995
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti taking morning expresso at Café Puccini a block or so up Columbus from his City Lights Books, March 16, 1985., 1985, printed 1991
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Allen Ginsberg
Ai Wei Wei sometime around Tompkins Square Riots, Police cars by the Park, Avenue A., 1988
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
John Singer Sargent
Miss Beatrice Townsend, 1882
National Gallery of Art
Samuel F. B. Morse
Joseph Gales, 1821/1822
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington, c. 1800
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Alex Katz
Portrait of Ada, 1959
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Charles Willson Peale
Rebecca Bryan White (Mrs. John White), 1788
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1762
National Gallery of Art
William Merritt Chase
Self-Portrait, 1915
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Graciela Iturbide
Gabriel García Márquez, Ciudad de México, México (Gabriel García Márquez, Mexico City, Mexico), 1989
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Graciela Iturbide
Sin título, Tehuantepec, México (Untitled, Tehuantepec, Mexico), 1985, printed 2005
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Adolph Gottlieb
Lucille Corcos, 1934
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Charles Bird King
Henry Clay, 1821
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
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Adolf Ulric Wertmuller
Robert Lea, 1797
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen
Anna Maria van Schurman, 1657
National Gallery of Art
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James Peale Sr.
John White, 1783
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Ambrose McEvoy
Mrs. Francis Howard, c. 1916/1918
Not on view · National Gallery of Art
![America's Peace Terms: Woodrow Wilson and the Fourteen Points [obverse], Karl Goetz, 1918](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/75859f80-7c7b-4576-9377-f125f1e2ef51/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
Karl Goetz
America's Peace Terms: Woodrow Wilson and the Fourteen Points [obverse], 1918
Not on view · National Gallery of Art