"Humanity" Bookend: Man

"Humanity" Bookend: Woman

n.d. · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Dancing Faun (Bacchante)

n.d. · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Naiad

n.d. · Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)

c. 1906 · Non esposta · Harvard Art Museums

Future

ca. 1931-1934 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

Past

ca. 1931-1934 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

Leonardo da Vinci

Ritratto di Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474/1478

Leonardo da Vinci

Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], c. 1474/1478

Vincent van Gogh

Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890

Vincent van Gogh

Girl in White, 1890

Vincent van Gogh

Roses, 1890

Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

Farmhouse in Provence, 1888

Vincent van Gogh

La Mousmé seduta, 1888

Allen Ginsberg

Lafcadio, 17, and Peter Orlovsky, 22, at door their apartment 5 Turner Terrace, S.F. 1956, Lafcadio looking for a job was cutting school, Peter was worried. These were new-built cheap rent veteran's apartments on Potrero Hill dominated by a giant gas tank., 1956, printed 1995

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

Dorothy Norman recovering from broken leg, her house Easthampton July 7, 1985 - we'd met in late 1950s, I'd known her as editor of Civil-libertarian 1930s _Twice a Year_ journal - same decade she'd been Alfred Stieglitz’s love, he'd photographed her hands in this mudra 1932., 1985

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

Summer 1965, 8 day backpack climbing in wilderness area of Northern Cascades, Glacier Park, Washington State, Gary Snyder back from a near-decade in Kyoto studying & practicing Zazen. My first mountain walk., 1965, printed later

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926-) & Gregory Corso (b. 1930-), modest & immodest self-portraits, we weren't lovers but poets & jackanapes smiling and serious in turn, candid facing Kodak-Retina lens delayed-action snap, camera propped on chair other end of small white-washed room top-floor little Hotel Armor a block downhill Calle Cook from 1 Rue Magellan Burroughs' Villa Muneria, Tangier, Morocco August 1961, 1961, printed 1995

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

William Seward Burroughs and Alan Ansen, two elegant gentlemen at entrance to defunct San Remo Café , N.W. corner Bleeker looking north up MacDougal Street, then the heart of Greenwich Village. Before vogue of the Cedar Bar, poets painters Kerouac's "subterraneans" Gregory Corso Carl Solomon myself Frank O'Hara Larry Rivers Maxwell Bodenheim drunk even Dylan Thomas ate drank and talked till 3 AM at this central café - superb inexpensive veal parmigiana and spaghetti a la vongole in rear restaurant, wooden tables - At that season W.S.B.'d published _Junkie_ and we were assembling _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_, Burroughs improvising earliest routines for _Naked Lunch_. Alan Ansen had been Polymath secretary to W.H. Auden a decade before, helping type "_Age of Anxiety_." One mid-afternoon, Fall 1953, fixed with trembling hand., 1953, printed 1993

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

Paul Bowles preparing mint tea on our arrival at the market area souk center of the medina, we took train from Tangier, stayed a week in his travel friend Christopher Wanklyn's household, Marrakech, Morocco, July 20, 1961, 1961, printed 1989

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac practicing Mystical Alchemy in preparation for "New Vision" Consciousness alterations in Literature & American Heart Land, camera in W.S. Burroughs' hands, Lower East Side New York, Fall 1953., 1953, printed later

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art

Allen Ginsberg

W.S. Burroughs leaving my photo show Holly Solomon Gallery 57th Street & 5th Avenue, New York January 1985., 1985

Non esposta · National Gallery of Art