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Carol Summers

Carol Summers

American, 1925

PrintmakingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

11

Institutional Exhibitions

28

Works in Collection

55

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Movements

• Expressionism

Related Artists

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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American Prints from the International Program

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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Prints by Seventeen Artists

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964–1965

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American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

About

Why this artist matters now

Carol Summers was an American printmaker known for large-scale woodblock prints created using a distinctive multiblock color technique developed in the 1950s. Working primarily in bold, saturated hues applied across separate carved blocks, he produced vivid landscapes and abstract compositions that bridged modernist abstraction and representational imagery. His approach to woodblock printing expanded the medium's technical and chromatic possibilities during the postwar period.

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Printmaking

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (28)

1982 · color woodcut

Sheet: 51 x 40.8 cm (20 1/16 x 16 1/16 in.); Image: 51 x 40.8 cm (20 1/16 x 16 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nightfall

1974 · Color woodcut on cream Japanese paper

94.5 × 92.3 cm (37 1/4 × 36 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Waterfall from 9 Prints

Waterfall from 9 Prints

1967 · Woodcut from a portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition (irreg.): 29 13/16 × 19 11/16" (75.7 × 50 cm); sheet: 29 13/16 × 19 11/16" (75.7 × 50 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Theodoric's Tomb, Ravenna from 9 Prints

1967 · Woodcut with chine collé from a portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition (irreg.): 28 3/4 × 21" (73.1 × 53.4 cm); sheet: 29 1/2 × 21" (74.9 × 53.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of D.M. from 9 Prints

Portrait of D.M. from 9 Prints

1967 · Woodcut from a portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition (irreg.): 28 9/16 × 21 1/8" (72.5 × 53.7 cm); sheet: 29 1/8 × 21 1/8" (74 × 53.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Landscape (Paysage) from 9 Prints

1967 · Stencil from a portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition (irreg.): 29 1/8 × 21 1/4" (74 × 54 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 3/16" (76.1 × 56.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Homage to Fish (Omaggio a pesce) from 9 Prints

Homage to Fish (Omaggio a pesce) from 9 Prints

1967 · Woodcut with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions from a portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition (irreg.): 28 3/8 × 21" (72 × 53.4 cm); sheet: 29 1/4 × 21" (74.3 × 53.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

9 Prints

1967 · Portfolio of six woodcuts (one with chine collé, one with stencil additions, one with monotype, stencil, and fish print additions), two lithographs (one with stencil additions), and one stencil

composition and sheet (see child records): dimensions vary

Museum of Modern Art

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Images

Nightfall (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Movements and affiliations

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US