The Beat Museum – Broadway Street near Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California

The Beat Museum in San Francisco is a labour of love focusing on the influential group of bohemian writers and artists that included Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady (the charismatic ex-con who was at the center of the movement), the poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the novelist William S. Burroughs.

This painting depicting the exterior of the museum is by Alan Russell-Cowan (also konwn as Alan Streets). Streets was born in London in 1970, his mother is German, his father English. He has been painting since the age of 8 and is primarily self-taught. Alan believes that his schizophrenia has been the passion and inspiration of his painting, and that his painting has been the stimulus for the suppression of his schizophrenic symptoms. He paints obsessively and prolifically. He stars in the documentary "My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures," which covers six years of his life and focuses on the relationship between his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic and his struggle to find success in the art world. He specializes in stylized landscapes of New York City, San Francisco, and other US cities along with his native England. He also paints imaginary visualizations of his perceived realities