On the Road With the Beats August 3, 2008

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition 'On the Road With the Beats' explores the lives and works of the artists who made up the "Beat Generation." Featuring more than 250 items drawn from across the Ransom Center's collections, the exhibition will take visitors on a journey through the cities, landscapes and communities that fostered and shaped the most important works of the Beat Generation, from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. Highlights include Jack Kerouac's scroll manuscript of 'On the Road,' letters from Allen Ginsberg to Kerouac, "cut-up" manuscripts by William S. Burroughs, issues of Wallace Berman's experimental magazine "Semina," Larry Rivers's study for a portrait of Kerouac and prints by the poet and artist Kenneth Patchen.