Claim: Allen Ginsberg is an artist.
Evidence: Irwin Allen Ginsberg -LRB- -LSB- ˈɡɪnzbərɡ -RSB- June 3 , 1926 -- April 5 , 1997 -RRB- was an American poet of Jewish origin , and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.