Kerouac: Beat Painting

As well as being the author of novels that defined postwar America and helped launch the counterculture, Jack Kerouac was also a prolific painter and draftsman. But his artistic work—inspired by the artists of the New York School with whom Kerouac socialized in the late '50s—has remained largely unknown. Most of Kerouac's artworks were inherited by a relative and remained unseen in the author's hometown of Lowel...