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Timothy Leary and Neal Cassady on Bus

Artist Allen Ginsberg (American ; 1926-1997)
Copy Right Holder Allen Ginsberg Trust
Copy Right Holder Corbis
Date1964
DimensionsOverall: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PHOTO
Credit LineMuseum purchase, John B. Turner '24 Memorial Fund
Terms
  • figures
  • bus
  • text
Object numberM.2003.29.2
InscribedSigned in margin at bottom: Neal Cassady meeting Timothy Leary first time on Merry Pranskter "Further" day-glo painted bus Neal'd driven cross-country & upstate to Millbrook N.Y., they came honking into the estate driveway & up to the house, Kesey & friends like a many-headed psychadelic monster in the quiet woodlands just raided for drugs by G. Gordon Liddy & local constabulary. Neal scratching amphetamine itch in his driver's palm. Summer 1964. Allen Ginsberg
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