William S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace Paperback Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder. Japanese kite against old hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of Yage Letters and Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter-zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tangier in December. New York, Fall 1953.
Providernga
Depiction ID2ecc5cbb-360e-4106-b5f6-249e931f682f
Subject ID157057
Modelgoogle/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384
Providernga
Depiction ID2ecc5cbb-360e-4106-b5f6-249e931f682f
Subject ID157057
Modelgoogle/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384
Created2026-05-22
Embeddingslink
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/2ecc5cbb-360e-4106-b5f6-249e931f682f/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs serious, sad lover's eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Ace Paperback Junkie in shadow propped on couch-back above right shoulder. Japanese kite against old hot-water-flat wallpaper. Finishing compilation of Yage Letters and Queer manuscript he visioned first Inter-zone "Market" routines looking out South window at fire escapes & clotheslines criss-crossing Lower East Side apartment house courtyards--sailed to Tangier in December. New York, Fall 1953.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/157057
typeimage
Higher values (10 or above) are often better for text queries. Current value is 0.0
Distance0.105436146
Providernga
Depiction ID2065665f-acdd-42c1-a036-92a735e7fb66
Subject ID143963
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/2065665f-acdd-42c1-a036-92a735e7fb66/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published _Junkie_ propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/143963
typeimage
Distance0.11000669
Providernga
Depiction IDbb7044d7-bd42-447c-9b03-3faa01f62f21
Subject ID142165
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/bb7044d7-bd42-447c-9b03-3faa01f62f21/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleBill Burroughs was in love, you can see the pain in his eyes, the longing. Assembling _Queer_ mss. 1953. 206 E 7 St N.Y.C., 1953
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/142165
typeimage
Distance0.13808733
Providernga
Depiction ID4b13653c-6783-4fae-9e0c-fd7ef5b7298c
Subject ID160753
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/4b13653c-6783-4fae-9e0c-fd7ef5b7298c/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary Davis
subject_titleWilliams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/160753
typeimage
Distance0.17126322
Providernga
Depiction ID5a27e943-a91c-4d7f-9d8f-93f71a4c88b2
Subject ID142167
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/5a27e943-a91c-4d7f-9d8f-93f71a4c88b2/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs sitting up in back bedroom waiting for my company...
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/142167
typeimage
Distance0.17302197
Providernga
Depiction ID1229fb5c-bf34-4c19-b591-0d2a1bf55892
Subject ID142168
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/1229fb5c-bf34-4c19-b591-0d2a1bf55892/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs interviewed for _Heavy Petting_ film memoir of youthful erotic initiations, his secretary James Grauerholz leaning forward observing discussion of sex world 1930 – 40s, final movie version cut out Bill’s queer loves. Obie Benz’s Soho loft, New York, December 21, 1986.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/142168
typeimage
Distance0.17419827
Providernga
Depiction ID96242f1e-16cc-43a0-bfa9-aacb956cf47f
Subject ID142204
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/96242f1e-16cc-43a0-bfa9-aacb956cf47f/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam Burroughs listening to new poetry-music tapes I'd made with Elvin Jones. We were staying in adjoining apartments at Varsity Townhouses, rented for the Summer session of Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado. We'd come every year since 1974, along with Peter Orlovsky, & Gregory Corso as frequent visitor. Anne Waldman & I co-directed the Buddhist-oriented poetry section. July 1984.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/142204
typeimage
Distance0.1896348
Providernga
Depiction ID5a0f28cb-4b0b-4caf-9572-1116c638e036
Subject ID154198
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/5a0f28cb-4b0b-4caf-9572-1116c638e036/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs slightly zonked, his dooryard-garden wall Villa Muneria, looking at me suspiciously, "Who are you an Agent for?" He "traced back along word-lines," cut-up technique of anti-brainwash language analysis, inquiring sources of my mental conditioning, perhaps Liberal Professor Trilling, perhaps "a trust of giant insects from another Galaxy" conspiring to make Nova Conditions on our Planet, exterminate HomoSap the Human animal so another life-form, virus invasion, move in on the Turf, such like poetries on his mind. Timothy Leary visited from Harvard, we took small amount of psilocybin, Bill shut himself inside his garden gate with a wave of his hand, allergic, paranoia season. Peter Orlovsky departed alone, ship to Athens, Bill employed for Scandinavia L.S.O. Conference leaving Gregory Corso and myself waving him goodbye
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/154198
typeimage
Distance0.19151819
Providernga
Depiction ID432eba3b-4395-49cd-8b73-5f732bfc65ff
Subject ID154199
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/432eba3b-4395-49cd-8b73-5f732bfc65ff/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleWilliam S. Burroughs, time of intense cut-up prose experiments and suspicions of all "apparent sensory phenomena." Tangier 1961.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/154199
typeimage
Distance0.19308543
Providernga
Depiction ID51677d9d-6339-477d-95f1-1553b3aa5b6d
Subject ID144242
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/51677d9d-6339-477d-95f1-1553b3aa5b6d/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleJack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, N.Y.C., he looked by then like his late father, red-faced corpulent W. C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. I’d brought back from visiting Timothy Leary at Millbrook Psychedelic Community, Fall 1964.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/144242
typeimage
Distance0.19522583
Providernga
Depiction IDec05375d-18d0-4a36-bec7-8de2445a12e7
Subject ID157036
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/ec05375d-18d0-4a36-bec7-8de2445a12e7/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleKodak-Retina snapshot by William Burroughs, living room 1953 Lower East Side, Jackson Mac Low portrait with recorder by Iris Brodey on wall. We were working on Bills S.A. letters. I had job on N.Y. World Telegram.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/157036
typeimage
Distance0.20259762
Providernga
Depiction IDb383eeb8-456b-4d3d-96f0-9005f1c3d4cd
Subject ID163963
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/b383eeb8-456b-4d3d-96f0-9005f1c3d4cd/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary Davis
subject_titleBill Burroughs, more friendly + open than I realized at the time - 1953 - really pleased!
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/163963
typeimage
Distance0.20279264
Providernga
Depiction IDa542c905-9464-433e-b9eb-5d06a8bde23b
Subject ID143970
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/a542c905-9464-433e-b9eb-5d06a8bde23b/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleRobert LaVigne, painter at 1010 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 1955, see Levesque in _Desolation Angels_, Robert Browning in Big Sur. We all lived on Gough Street, later in Hotel Wentley. He lives & paints in Seattle 1988, great artist.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/143970
typeimage
Distance0.20404303
Providernga
Depiction ID7cab1e42-1268-4759-8f67-87d5a8d2264a
Subject ID144245
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/7cab1e42-1268-4759-8f67-87d5a8d2264a/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleFrancesco Clemente looking over hand-script album with new poem I’d written out for his Blake-inspired watercolor illuminations, we’d done two books before; entrance corner of his loft overlooking Great Jones Street Manhattan, October 1984. He liked this picture.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/144245
typeimage
Distance0.20487183
Providernga
Depiction ID8f23cdf8-9d04-42c1-a98b-ec9d8da669bc
Subject ID160766
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f23cdf8-9d04-42c1-a98b-ec9d8da669bc/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary Davis
subject_titleWilliam Burroughs' later phase as painter, "Shotgun art" a beginning work at his side, "The Bunker" his old loft on New York's Bowery, 1984. He'd recently moved to Lawerence, Kansas, was visiting New York.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/160766
typeimage
Distance0.20862633
Providernga
Depiction ID7317450c-6f3e-4c8d-8c71-8137180ca5dd
Subject ID160728
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/7317450c-6f3e-4c8d-8c71-8137180ca5dd/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary Davis
subject_titleRobert LaVigne, Painter friend of Poets, visiting 1010 Montgomery Street – see Kerouac's portrait of LaVigne as “Levesque” in _Desolation Angels_, “Robert Browning” in Big Sur. We’d all lived together on Gough Street & later Hotel Weatley thou Peter & I moved to Montgomery Street North Beach, where I wrote _Howl_ in this room, S.F. 1955
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/160728
typeimage
Distance0.2110681
Providernga
Depiction IDcde5c9f8-6dc1-4094-8d79-14c31d3bb535
Subject ID157025
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/cde5c9f8-6dc1-4094-8d79-14c31d3bb535/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleBill Reck in his coldwater flat Lower East Side circa 1953, one of eminent Subterraneans (Vide Frity Nichols); he entered J.K.'s Book of Dreams as Dick Beck. outside his window off Bowery and East 2'd Street, a cemetery, he wrote "Love is a lime green tree," last line of poem looking out
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/157025
typeimage
Distance0.21133262
Providernga
Depiction IDd451ba87-66fc-4a6e-9b23-210289560285
Subject ID142147
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/d451ba87-66fc-4a6e-9b23-210289560285/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleHerbert 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.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/142147
typeimage
Distance0.21200132
Providernga
Depiction ID9d2280b8-bf0a-48cd-9e9d-d589013e1020
Subject ID157023
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/9d2280b8-bf0a-48cd-9e9d-d589013e1020/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleTangier 1961 Lance Hendrickson showed up, a beautiful strange face
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/157023
typeimage
Distance0.21264464
Providernga
Depiction ID37035680-ed05-4b7c-ad93-8dec0c23265a
Subject ID205215
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/37035680-ed05-4b7c-ad93-8dec0c23265a/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary Davis
subject_titleWilliam Burroughs ready to leave "the Bunker" for supper, he was visiting New York staying in his former Bowery loft, maybe back from Europe where he was awarded rosette Chevalier des Arts, visible below the round American Institute of Arts & Letters pin on his lapel, very distinguished gentleman, March 26, 1985, just beginning his late additional career as a painter.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/205215
typeimage
Distance0.2127769
Providernga
Depiction ID38f63b6c-08e6-4f51-b37c-3fa1fead28cd
Subject ID154195
Attributes
previewhttps://api.nga.gov/iiif/38f63b6c-08e6-4f51-b37c-3fa1fead28cd/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg
provider_nameNational Gallery of Art
provider_urlhttps://www.nga.gov/
subject_creditlineGift of Gary S. Davis
subject_titleJack Kerouac looking out window Apartment 16, 206 East 7th Street Lower East Side Manhattan, view from fire-escape, books on the sill, broom handle and old tenement wallpaper in afternoon sun, WM. Burroughs was staying at my place then, Fall 1953.
subject_urlhttps://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/154195
typeimage