About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Robert Cumming
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Title
- Zero Plus Zero Equals Zero/A Doughnut Plus a Doughnut Equals Two Doughnuts
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- 1974
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Medium
- Gelatin silver prints (2)
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, below left image, in graphite: "ZERO PLUS ZERO EQUALS ZERO."; inscribed and signed recto, on mount, lower right, below right image, in graphite: "A DOUGHNUT PLUS A DOUGHNUT EQUALS TWO DOUGHNUTS / Cumming 1974."; inscribed verso, on sticker affixed to mount, upper left, in black ink: "11[?]" [obscured by white linen tape]; verso, on sticker affixed to mount, upper left, in black ink: "[illegible]" [obscured by white linen tape]; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, along left edge, sideways, in black ink and graphite: "Crescent [stamped in black ink] J27 [inscribed in graphite] 155007 [stamped in black ink]"; inscribed verso, on mount, lower left, in graphite: "75.663.a-b"; printed and inscribed verso, on sticker affixed to mount, lower right, upside-down, in green and black ink: "2311 Cotner Avenue / Telephone: 478-5038 / CART AND CRATE [printed in green ink] / CC / 75 / 314 [inscribed in black ink] / Los Angeles 90064 [printed in green ink]"
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Dimensions
- 19.4 × 24.6 cm (each image); 20.1 × 25.2 cm (each paper); 50.9 × 76.1 cm (mount)
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Credit Line
- In Chicago Portfolio Fund
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Reference Number
- 1983.820
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