| Cummings, Paul | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Scholar/Critic/Expert | |||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1933 - 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 |
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| updated | 10/31/2024 13:33:16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| research links |
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