Academic Exercise in Shading in Which the Negative Proved to Be Equally as Correct

1975

Robert Cumming

Artist, American, 1943 - 2021

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 gelatin silver prints

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    left panel: 20 x 25.08 cm (7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
    right panel: 20 x 24.92 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
    mount: 34.93 x 68.58 cm (13 3/4 x 27 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.133.47

  • Copyright

    R. Cumming

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025

Inscriptions

by artist, lower right on mount under image in graphite: ACADEMIC EXERCISE IN SHADING IN WHICH / THE NEGATIVE PROVED TO BE EQUALLY AS CORRECT.; signed, lower right on mount in graphite: Cumming 1975.

Wikidata ID

Q64159506

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