Robert Cumming
Bad Night for Writing

Bad Night for Writing

© Robert Cumming / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Bad Night for Writing
Bad Night for Writing
ArtistAmerican, 1943–2021
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Bad Night for Writing
Date1974
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in. (20.2 × 25 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in. (20.2 × 25 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 × 19 15/16 in. (40.4 × 50.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of William C. Agee
Object number2023.68
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Houston, 1979; given to MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition History"Contemporary American Photographic Works," Curated by Lewis Baltz, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 4–December 31, 1977.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, mount recto, lower left below image: BAD NiGHT FOR WRiTiNG [sic]
Signed in pencil, mount recto, lower right below image: Cumming 1974-
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, bottom right: AP57
Signed in pencil, mount recto, lower right below image: Cumming

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