Mother Ghost

1994

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (65.7 × 50.2 cm) Plate: 23 7/16 × 17 3/4 in. (59.5 × 45.1 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, US

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Allen Ginsberg, Mother Ghost, 1994. Etching, sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (65.7 × 50.2 cm) Plate: 23 7/16 × 17 3/4 in. (59.5 × 45.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Published by Korean friends of the 1993 Whitney Biennial in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art 96.59.3

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