Improvisation in Beijing

1990

Medium: Offset photolithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 29 3/4 × 21 15/16 in. (75.6 × 55.7 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, US

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Allen Ginsberg, Improvisation in Beijing, 1990. Offset photolithograph, sheet: 29 3/4 × 21 15/16 in. (75.6 × 55.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Bunty and Tom Armstrong 93.124.8

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