Carol Summers
American printmaker, educator (1925–2016)
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Carol Summers (December 26, 1925 – October 27, 2016) was an American printmaker and educator, known for creating works by woodcut process.
Carol Summers | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 26, 1925 Kingston, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 27, 2016 (aged 90) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bard College (BA) |
| Known for | Printmaker, educator |
Early life and education
Carol Summers was born in 1925 in Kingston, New York.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,[1] studying with Stefan Hirsch and Louis Schanker.
Career
Summers created his prints through a process he developed in the 1950s that became known in as the "Carol Summers technique": soaking large blocks of wood in ink, he placed them in patterns on one side of a piece of paper in order to, as one reviewer described his work, "give beautiful, blurry, shapes to the other side. The results are simple, decorative and uniquely vibrant."[2]
In 1955, he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship; and in 1959, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.[1]
Summers had a 50 year retrospective in 1999 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California.[3]
Teaching career
In addition to his art, Summers had a career as a teacher, serving as an instructor at Hunter College, the Brooklyn Museum School, Pratt Graphics Center, and Columbia University.[4]
Collections
His work is part of the collection of the Tate in London;[5] the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh;[6] Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.;[7] the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.;[4] the Art Institute of Chicago; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin;[8] the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York;[9] the Brooklyn Museum;[2] the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City;[10] and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.[11]
Personal life
He was a resident of Bonny Doon, California,[3][12] and later Santa Cruz, California.[13]
Summers died at the age of 90 on October 27, 2016, in his home in Santa Cruz.[13]