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Robert Cumming

American | 1943 - 2021

Robert Cumming was an American photographer who was born in 1943. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art have featured Robert Cumming's work in the past.Robert Cumming's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 60 USD to 13,860 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 13,860 USD for 'WORK FOR SAWS. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA' AND 'SAWS THROUGH AT RIGHT ANGLES. . .RIP AND CROSS-CUT.': A DIPTYCH, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2020. Robert Cumming has been featured in articles for Aperture, Los Angeles Times and Juliet Art Magazine. The most recent article is Vintage Work Mixes with New Images in New Exhibition at Janet Borden Inc. written for ArtDaily in January 2022. The artist died in 2021.

Artist's alternative names: Robert H. Cumming

“ ..Shot in 35mm color transparency, Robert thought of this unedited shooting as a kind of sifting or sketching.. ”
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Jancar Gallery

Submarine Conning Tower and Interior Sets, Stage, #27, Series Pilot, "Operation Petticoat," Universal Studios, Calif., May 16, 1977 - Robert Cumming

Submarine Conning Tower and Interior Sets, Stage, #27, Series Pilot, "Operation Petticoat," Universal Studios, Calif., May 16, 1977, 1977

'WORK FOR SAWS. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA' AND 'SAWS THROUGH AT RIGHT ANGLES. . .RIP AND CROSS-CUT.': A DIPTYCH - Robert Cumming

'WORK FOR SAWS. IRVINE, CALIFORNIA' AND 'SAWS THROUGH AT RIGHT ANGLES. . .RIP AND CROSS-CUT.': A DIPTYCH, 1978

gelatin silver prints

image: 7⅝ by 9¾ in.

Diptych: Toy Boat Afloat in Small Pond, Upon Setting Sail, Sinks Reflection - Robert Cumming

Diptych: Toy Boat Afloat in Small Pond, Upon Setting Sail, Sinks Reflection, 1974

silver prints mounted to the original board

each measuring approximately 7 5/8x9 5/8 inches

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Past Exhibitions

ONLINE: Robert Cumming: Large Prints, A Selection - Gallery Luisotti

ONLINE: Robert Cumming: Large Prints, A Selection

Gallery Luisotti

Santa Monica | Los Angeles | California | USA

Jun 02,2022 - Oct 01,2022

Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City | Missouri | USA

Oct 22,2021 - Apr 25,2022

Robert Cumming: Large Prints - Gallery Luisotti

Robert Cumming: Large Prints

Gallery Luisotti

Santa Monica | Los Angeles | California | USA

Feb 16,2022 - Apr 23,2022

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Tricycle and Cat, Nagaoka, Japan - Robert Cumming

Tricycle and Cat, Nagaoka, Japan

By Robert Cumming

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

Snow on Newspaper, West Suffield, Connecticut - Robert Cumming

Snow on Newspaper, West Suffield, Connecticut

By Robert Cumming

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

Crossing Children, Nagaoka, Japan - Robert Cumming

Crossing Children, Nagaoka, Japan

By Robert Cumming

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

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Articles

Vintage Work Mixes with New Images in New Exhibition at Janet Borden Inc.

Vintage Work Mixes with New Images in New Exhibition at Janet Borden Inc.

ArtDaily 17/01/2022

Janet Borden Inc. is presenting a new exhibition, Places, Faces, Traces.

How Robert Cumming Pushed the Boundaries of Photography and Narrative

How Robert Cumming Pushed the Boundaries of Photography and Narrative

Aperture 06/01/2022

A touchstone for contemporary artists, Cumming was fascinated by illusion and trickery, inviting viewers to look in—and look again.

Robert Cumming, Whose Photographs Transformed Camera Work, Dies at 78

Robert Cumming, Whose Photographs Transformed Camera Work, Dies at 78

Los Angeles Times 21/12/2021

Robert Cumming, an artist best known for Conceptual photographs that were instrumental in a major transformation of camera work in the 1970s and early ‘80s, died Dec. 16 in Desert Hot Springs, Calif. He was 78.

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