Robert Cumming

"Sacramento Arms" Motel Court Looking out on Sternwheeler and Western Sets

1977

A motel courtyard with a swimming pool and surrounding rooms framed by a balcony railing.

A motel courtyard with a swimming pool and surrounding rooms framed by a balcony railing.

Not on view

Date
1977

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
2000.367.23

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/12486

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.

Robert Cumming
90 works in the collection, 5 exhibitions

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