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Bernard Pfriem
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Merce Cunningham 1981
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Brooke Shields Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off
Category
1980s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Monograph: To Be Someone (Hand signed and inscribed "Love from Mary Heilmann")
By Mary Heilmann
Located in New York, NY
of Minimalism with the spontaneous ethos of the Beat Generation, and are always distinguishable by
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Philip Johnson, Architect, Lee Radziwill, Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Bob Grant Radio Personality Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Brazilian Actress Sonia Braga
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors, troubadours
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Sidney Janis, Conrad Janis, NYC
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Don King Boxing Promoter
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
turkeys to needy South Floridians.
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Gillian Bradshaw Smith in Studio
By Fred W. McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off
Category
1970s Street Art Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Thomas Hoving John Lindsey Costume Party Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Washington Square Park Architecture Photo NYC
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off
Category
1950s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Tipper Gore, Democratic Fundraiser 1992 Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, it's off-off
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Edward Steichen, MoMA Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Photographer Fred McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Guggenheim Museum Architecture Photo Alloway
By Fred W. McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Robert Smithson Land Art Artist
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
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Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cloud Flute Moment
Located in Surfside, FL
Oakland,
California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat
Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
From Here to There
Located in Surfside, FL
Petersen settled in Oakland,
California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat
Generation
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Malcolm X Funeral Signed Vintage Silver Gelatin print
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Signed Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Nolan Ryan
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Malcolm X Funeral Vintage silver gelatin gelatin photograph
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
. McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Dapper Lord Snowdon Photo Suit
Tie
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Lord Snowdon
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
A Matter of Aesthetics
Located in Surfside, FL
some of the most active poets of the Beat
Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Phil
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Robert Rauschenberg, rare 1970s Signed/N Earth Day William Burroughs lithograph
By Robert Rauschenberg
Located in New York, NY
work in 1986.
About William Burroughs
William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses, (for her cat) Unique Signed work, Framed
Located in New York, NY
, including Fluxus, Neo-Dada, performance art, the Beat Generation, and happenings.
More about Carolee
Category
1980s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photo President Richard Nixon Innaugural
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
died four days later at the age of 81.
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat
Category
1990s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Robert Frank
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art
Category
1960s Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Herbert
Mercedes Matter
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Jasper Johns Exhibit Photo Whitney Mus
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern
Category
1970s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)
By De Hirsch Margules
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$3,750 Sale Price
50% Off
Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
By De Hirsch Margules
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Sea Stone and Driftwood Sculpture by Beat Generation Surrealist John Baxter
By John Baxter
Located in Treasure Island, CA
1960s. Associated with the beat generation, Baxter worked exclusively with found objects, namely sea
Category
Vintage 1950s American Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Allen Ginsberg, American Poet and Gay Activist
Located in New York, NY
Washington Square Park in August 1966. Ginsberg (1926 – 1997) was one of the leading figures of both the Beat
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
On The Row
By Sebastian Kruger
Located in Boston, MA
provocative Pop Realism. "On The Row" is a tribute to Beat Generation's scribe Jack Kerouac. The
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Untitled
By George Herms
Located in Santa Monica, CA
assemblage sculpture who came of age as an artist at the heart of the Beat Generation, George Herms
Category
Late 20th Century Assemblage Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By George Herms
Located in Santa Monica, CA
sculpture who came of age as an artist at the heart of the Beat Generation, George Herms transforms
Category
Late 20th Century Assemblage Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
"Live Fast, Die Young" Film Poster, 1958
Located in London, GB
The title became a way of life for the beat generation. This provocative one sheet features a
Category
Vintage 1950s American Posters
Goya’s Ghost
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff began her career immersed in the heady culture of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Fellini
s Bird 2
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff began her career immersed in the heady culture of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Firefall
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff began her career immersed in the heady culture of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat
Category
Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Kayla
s Eyes 2
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff began her career immersed in the heady culture of the San Francisco Bay Area Beat
Category
Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Iconic 1971 Large Original Framed Poster
Bullfighting Alacete, Spain
Located in Pewsey, GB
leading sex symbol, its contribution to the international beat generation.
As well as Diego Puerta who
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Posters
Materials
Paper
Surrealist Gouache,
Kerouac, Orlovsky and Burroughs, The Beat Generation
Located in Cotignac, FR
people were authors and founder members of the Beat Generation.
The Beat Generation was a literary
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Looking Within, Large Mystical San Francisco Oil Painting Beat Visionary Artist
By Michael Bowen
Located in Surfside, FL
, and handmade art books.
An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Para Varda Large Mystical San Francisco Gouache Painting Beat Visionary Artist
By Michael Bowen
Located in Surfside, FL
the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in
Category
20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Lawrence Lipton Photo Beatnik Beat Writer
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Beat Artist "Witness" Lithograph Etching Lakeside Studio Chicago
Located in Surfside, FL
Oakland,
California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat
Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Etching
Beat Artist "Double Witness" Lithograph Etching Lakeside Studio Chicago
Located in Surfside, FL
Oakland,
California, where he met some of the most active poets of the Beat
Generation: Gary Snyder, Allen
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Beat Poet Peter Orlovsky Beatnik Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
McDarrah
Over a 50-year span, Fred W. McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Poet Allen Ginsberg Howl Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
, philosopher and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke Beatnik Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Vintage Print Silver Gelatin Signed Photograph Jack Kerouac Street Sign Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Robert Loughlin "Ken Kasey, I Mean Ken Kesey!" Original Painting on Bark 21st c.
By Robert Loughlin
Located in San Francisco, CA
, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
NYC Cabbie and Fare Vintage Silver Gelatin Photo Black White Street Photograph
By Ryan Weideman
Located in Surfside, FL
. Notable passengers include Allen Ginsberg—famed Beat Generation poet. The photo now belongs to the
Category
1990s American Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Unbridled Trio
By Marie Sarni
Located in Soquel, CA
that movement.
San Francisco Beat Generation painter Marie Sarni was born in Boston, MA in 1931. She
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Feminist Protesting Vietnam War
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
Vietnam
October 23, 1972
Over a 50-year span, McDarrah documented the rise of the Beat Generation
Category
20th Century American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
World Champions Mets Parade - October 1969
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
rise of the Beat Generation, the city’s postmodern art movement, its off-off-Broadway actors
Category
20th Century Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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