Fast and Slow Rain

Photography and Media

1974

Robert Cumming
American, 1943-2021

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Robert Cumming
Title: Fast and Slow Rain
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver prints (2)
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, below left image, in graphite: "FAST AND SLOW RAIN"; signed and inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, below right image, in graphite: "Cumming 1974."; inscribed verso, on mount, upper left, in graphite: "#18" [partially obscured by white linen tape]; verso, on mount, upper right, upside-down, in graphite: "104" [encircled]; verso, on mount, lower right, sideways, in graphite: "J29"
Dimensions: Each image: 19.5 × 24.5 cm (7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Each paper: 19.7 × 24.9 cm (7 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Mount: 50.8 × 76.3 cm (20 × 30 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: In Chicago Portfolio Fund
Reference Number: 1983.817

Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Art Museum, “Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960–1980,” October 30, 1992–January 17, 1993; traveled to Lincoln, Massachusetts, De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, February 12–April 11, 1993; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, June 19–August 18, 1993; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, September 12–November 7, 1993; Tampa Museum of Art, November 21, 1993–January 16, 1994; Des Moines Art Center, March 5–June 5, 1994.
Limoges, France, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Limousin, “Robert Cumming,” August 4–October 29, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Sight-Set-Sequence: Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” November 10–May 19, 2002. (Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Mind at Play,” June 14–September 7, 2008. (David Travis)
Los Angeles, California, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981,” October 2, 2011–February 13, 2012. (Paul Schimmel)

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