Robert Cumming

Planting Grasses; Stage #12. Movie for TV; "It Happened One Christmas," Universal Studios, Calif., 1977
1977

A black and white photograph showing a staged winter scene with evergreen trees and shrubs on snow-covered ground. In the foreground, there are two carts, one with a hand lever and the other loaded with tufts of grass or shrubbery. In the background, a large backdrop with a painted snowy landscape is partially visible, revealing the edge and the wooden structure it's attached to, indicating that the scene is an indoor set.
A black and white photograph showing a staged winter scene with evergreen trees and shrubs on snow-covered ground. In the foreground, there are two carts, one with a hand lever and the other loaded with tufts of grass or shrubbery. In the background, a large backdrop with a painted snowy landscape is partially visible, revealing the edge and the wooden structure it's attached to, indicating that the scene is an indoor set.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 9/16 × 9 5/8in. (19.2 × 24.4 cm)

Accession number
2001.399

Series
Studio Still Lifes Universal Studios, California 1977

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

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

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