The Slouch Hat (oil and charcoal on paper, c.1960) hangs on the wall of a 16th century villa in Pura, Ticino, surrounded by many art works owned by the Sciolli brothers. The painting evokes the people in the famed Cedar Tavern in the Village in New York, a meeting place for poets like Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan. Eduardo Simantob/SWI It is a little-known fact that the American writer Jack Kerouac, one of the "godfathers" of 1960s counterculture, was also a painter whose works are now in the hands of two Swiss collectors. This content was published on February 11,...