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Cummings, Paul print view role Scholar/Critic/Expert dates 1933 - 1993 city New York City state NY sex M historical notes Art historian, specializing on Contemporary American art. He was an expert on Mark Tobey. Paul Cummings; expert on drawings and prints of U.S.; d. Feb. 7 in New York at age 64; b. in Detroit Lakes, Minn. in 1933; studied at Univ. of Minn. and then in London; moved to Manhattan in mid-1950s; directed Louis Alexander Gallery, director of oral history project of Archives of American Art, adjunct curator of drawings at Whitney Museum of American Art, founded Print collector’s newsletter and Drawing, edited six eds. of The dictionary of American artists, etc. decades of activity 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:28 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Paul Cummings papers, 1967-1993. see details... Achim Moeller Fine Arts 35 East 64th Street Paul Cummings' Mark Tobey Research Papers see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 William Horace Littlefield letters and photographs to Paul Cummings, 1951-1969. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Mark Tobey papers, [ca. 1920]-1977. see details... University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries Mark Tobey Papers, circa 1850-1985 see details... see also: Louis Alexander Gallery «  back