2009.82.14

[Generation Gap]
1969
Art Acquisition Fund
2009.82.14

frame, mat, plex
signed in ink, BR below image
handwritten in ink, BR after signature: "10/20"
Micaëla Gallery, San Francisco, "Larry Keenan," September 6 - 30, 2006.

This is a black and white photograph of an older man sitting on a park bench surrounded by four nude and one clothed woman. Three people look toward the scene with their backs to the camera in the foreground.

Micaëla Gallery printout:"GENERATION GAP / Los Altos Hills 1969 / In the hills I was shooting a session with some medical students from Stanford and the Sexual Freedom League illustrating a Ken Kesey project. The basic premise was that the doctors spend all their time at school and in hospitals and are not exposed to the free life in the real world. Kesey felt that they were losing their sensitivity. This unknown old man walked in and sat down on the bench among some people sitting around. Suddenly they all got up, took off their clothes and danced around him. He refused to remove his clothes even when the women pulled at them. Everyone kept asking 'Who is that old man?'"

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