Carol Summers (American/New York, 1925-2016)
Carol Summers (American/New York, 1925-2016), "Big Sur", color woodcut on paper, pencil-signed upper left, titled and numbered "56/75" center, "Property of SK&F U.S. Philadelphia" inventory label on backing paper, 36 1/2 in. x 37 1/4 in., framed, overall 37 15/16 in. x 38 1/2 in . x 1 in.Note: Carol Summers was born in Kingston, New York to artists Theresa and Ivan Summers. He was raised in Woodstock and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1951, studying with Stefen Hirsch and Louis Schanker while also taking classes with Arnold Blanch in the Art Students League. He is primarily known as a printmaker and invented a unique method in the 1950s called the “Carol Summers Technique” that involves fully saturating large blocks of wood in colorful inks and arranging them in a pattern on paper such that the ink bleeds through en verso resulting in abstract, hazy fields of diffused colors which as Serena Davis of The Telegraph describes, "give beautiful, blurry, shapes to the other side. The results are simple, decorative and uniquely vibrant,” as is superbly exemplified in the lot offered here.In addition to being an artist, Summers had a career as a teacher, serving as an instructor at the Brooklyn Museum School, Hunter College, Columbia University, and Pratt Graphics Center. His pieces can be found in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Ref.: Davies, Serena. “Under a grand: Carol Summers”. The Telegraph. Feb. 24, 2018, www.telegraph.co.uk. Accessed: Mar. 26, 2024.
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Carol Summers (American/New York, 1925-2016), "Big Sur", color woodcut on paper, pencil-signed upper left, titled and numbered "56/75" center, "Property of SK&F U.S. Philadelphia" inventory label on backing paper, 36 1/2 in. x 37 1/4 in., framed, overall 37 15/16 in. x 38 1/2 in . x 1 in.Note: Carol Summers was born in Kingston, New York to artists Theresa and Ivan Summers. He was raised in Woodstock and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1951, studying with Stefen Hirsch and Louis Schanker while also taking classes with Arnold Blanch in the Art Students League. He is primarily known as a printmaker and invented a unique method in the 1950s called the “Carol Summers Technique” that involves fully saturating large blocks of wood in colorful inks and arranging them in a pattern on paper such that the ink bleeds through en verso resulting in abstract, hazy fields of diffused colors which as Serena Davis of The Telegraph describes, "give beautiful, blurry, shapes to the other side. The results are simple, decorative and uniquely vibrant,” as is superbly exemplified in the lot offered here.In addition to being an artist, Summers had a career as a teacher, serving as an instructor at the Brooklyn Museum School, Hunter College, Columbia University, and Pratt Graphics Center. His pieces can be found in the permanent collections of many institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.Ref.: Davies, Serena. “Under a grand: Carol Summers”. The Telegraph. Feb. 24, 2018, www.telegraph.co.uk. Accessed: Mar. 26, 2024.
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