A woman sits on a couch examining a small sewing machine amid a table of mini sewing machines.

Robert Cumming

Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Maching Collection - Miss Head's Bungalow

1977

Not on view

90 works in the collection
5 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/12466

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm)

Accession number
2000.367.3

Edition
1/25

Credit line
Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Cumming / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/12466

Part of a series:
Studio Still Lifes Universal Studios, California 1977
25 works

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A folding drying rack with clothes stands by a wooden fence in a backyard by hills.
Make-up table on wheels with a lighted mirror frame standing on a theater stage.
Three men pose beside a large clay killer whale model being constructed in a workshop.
Three lifelike mannequin figures sit and lean together, one with mouth open as if screaming.
Film studio stage with painted street backdrop, lighting rigs, and scattered chairs and equipment.
A woman sits on a sofa examining a miniature sewing machine while several miniature machines fill the table.
A stacked pile of firewood sits on a snowy porch beneath hanging icicles.
Detailed scale model of a rocky shoreline with buildings and drafting plans on a worktable.
Scale model of a Florida ocean floor with a suspended shark model for the film Jaws 2.

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