{"id":203,"date":"2016-12-29T05:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:44:04","slug":"robert-cumming-1991-1992","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/robert-cumming-1991-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Cumming, 1991-1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.35-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-29-at-12-23-35-am\" width=\"699\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.35-AM.png 699w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.35-AM-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Cumming draws on a prepared linoleum plate using red lithography ink diluted with solvent. The \u2018ink\u2019 Maurice makes for him is applied with a drafting tool Robert guides over the plate using a straight edge. At one point for the large print Table Top, Robert employed a Q-tip attached to a large pencil compass to produce graceful arcs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205\" style=\"width: 697px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.47-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-29-at-12-23-47-am\" width=\"697\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.47-AM.png 697w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.47-AM-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert studies a proof pulled by Maurice Sanchez in the Harnish Graphics Studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Robert Cumming<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">Maurice Sanchez, printer<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">1991-1992<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop: January 21-25, 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Robert Cumming received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and two years later received his MFA from the University of Illinois. His first teaching job was at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he became involved with mail art, an early conceptual movement that bestowed art status on items sent through the postal system. In 1970 Cumming moved to southern California to lecture on photography. While there, he also engaged in creative writing and developed conceptual drawings and constructions that he then photographed. Cumming works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. His works layer meanings within meanings, with references to science and art history, always with a distinctive wit. In 1978 Cumming moved to western Massachusetts, where he continues to make art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">In all media Cumming is known as an innovator, and printer Maurice Sanchez provided a perfect collaborative foil. In addition to producing straightforward ink monotypes, Cumming also executed a series of prints using a single image drawn in graphite\u00a0<em>(One Fuel\/One Flame)<\/em>\u00a0that Sanchez printed on multiple sheets. Using a variety of ad-hoc drawing media and techniques (including a Q-tip mounted on a compass and drafting pens dipped in diluted litho inks), he added color to the images, producing a series of variant monotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ROBERT CUMMING\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RKKarFP7XI4?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Robert H. Cumming. American, 1943 \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.11-AM.png\" alt=\"One\u00a0Fuel\/One\u00a0Flame. 1991 Monotype\u00a0on\u00a0paper Sheet:\u00a019\u00a01\/4\u00a0x\u00a021\u00a0in. \" width=\"362\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.11-AM.png 362w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-29-at-12.23.11-AM-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One\u00a0Fuel\/One\u00a0Flame. 1991<br \/>Monotype\u00a0on\u00a0paper<br \/>Sheet:\u00a019\u00a01\/4\u00a0x\u00a021\u00a0in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-527\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-527 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-4.13.51-PM-300x221.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-25-at-4-13-51-pm\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-4.13.51-PM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-4.13.51-PM-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-4.13.51-PM-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-4.13.51-PM.png 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VI Non Specific Tabletop, 1991<br \/> Monotype on paper<br \/> Sheet: 27 3\/8\u201d x 36\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Cumming Maurice Sanchez, printer 1991-1992 Workshop: January 21-25, 1991 Robert Cumming received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and two years later received his MFA from the University of Illinois. His first teaching job was at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where he became involved with mail art, an early conceptual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/robert-cumming-1991-1992\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Cumming, 1991-1992<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}