Ring-bound Stationery; Sketch to Final State

1975

Robert Cumming

Associated Names
Robert Cumming

Artist, American, 1943 - 2021

Two adjacent photographs display arrangements of notepads on a textured surface with cylindrical rods at the top and bottom of each photo. The color palette is mostly monochrome with shades of gray for the lined paper and tabletop. The left photograph features four notepads, three horizontal and one vertical. The right photograph shows five notepads, one flipped upward to show blank pages.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2 gelatin silver prints

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1976)

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 19.5 × 24.5 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
    sheet (each): 20 × 25.08 cm (7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
    mount: 50.8 × 71.12 cm (20 × 28 in.)
    mat: 55.88 × 71.12 cm (22 × 28 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.4144

  • Copyright

    R. Cumming

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Cumming, Orange, CA; purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Castelli Graphics, New York), 1976; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, 1976: Robert Cumming and Roy DeCarava, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 14 – May 9, 1976

Bibliography

1976

  • The Nation's Capital in Photographs, 1976: Robert Cumming. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1976: 7, 16-17, no. 5.

Inscriptions

signed by artist on mount, lower right below image in graphite: Cumming 1975.; lower left below image: RING-BOUND STATIONERY; SKETCH TO FINAL STATE; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner of mount: ROBERT CUMMING / "RING BOUND STATIONERY[;] / SKETCH TO FINAL STATE["] / 1975 / 1976.36.2; on verso of mount, lower right: 1976.36[cut off]

Wikidata ID

Q64159508

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