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Artwork

The Kerouac Painting

Artist/Creator
Tom Field (Artist)
Date
1960
ID #
BG1787

Physical Description

Medium
oil, graphite
Support
canvas
Dimensions
180.3 cm 172.6 cm (Object)
Object Description
Tom Field painting with small Jack Kerouac drawing in the bottom right corner.
Kerouac supposedly passed out in Field’s studio, woke up and scrawled a pencil drawing on the painting and Field left it there.

History

Collection
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line
Gift of Ernie Edwards, 1998
Related Exhibitions
Breathless Days, 1959-60; A Chronotropic Experiment

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