Robert Cumming

Word Shop
1987

A watercolor painting depicting a wooden chair upturned and resting on a white pedestal, set against a backdrop of dense green foliage. To the right, a partial, ghostly image of a person's lower face and shoulder appears, as if peeking from behind the scene. The painting is framed within a larger canvas that shows signs of aging and staining, with faint text and numbers along the edges suggesting a past use or different context for the material.

A watercolor painting depicting a wooden chair upturned and resting on a white pedestal, set against a backdrop of dense green foliage. To the right, a partial, ghostly image of a person's lower face and shoulder appears, as if peeking from behind the scene. The painting is framed within a larger canvas that shows signs of aging and staining, with faint text and numbers along the edges suggesting a past use or different context for the material.

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Date
1987

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Acrylic and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 77 × 60 1/4in. (195.6 × 153 cm) Image: 72 7/8 × 56in. (185.1 × 142.2 cm)

Accession number
87.50

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

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

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Robert Cumming
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