Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac

© Allen Ginsberg

Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac

Currently not on view

Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac,

1953, printed 1991

Allen Ginsberg, American, 1926–1997
x1993-190.2.7

Information

Title
Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac
Dates

1953, printed 1991

Maker
Allen Ginsberg
Medium
Platinum-palladium print
Dimensions
image: 29.5 x 19.7 cm (11 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 40.7 x 33.4 cm (16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ruth Bernhard
Object Number
x1993-190.2.7
Inscription
Signed, inscribed, and dated in pencil, below image: Jack Kerouac New York Fall 1953; edition statement in pencil, l.l.: AP 15/24
Culture
American
Type
platinum prints, palladium prints
Subject
walls, men, brick, portraits

Given to the Princeton University Art Museum by Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006).

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