December 5 – December 19, 1980
Richard E. Fuller Gallery
The Richard E. Fuller Gallery is pleased to present Carol Summers, one of America’s foremost printmakers, at Beaver College from December 5 through December 19. He will conduct a demonstration at 1:30 PM, December 5, in the Spruance Art Center, and an opening reception will be held at 7:30 PM that same evening in the art gallery. The public is invited to attend both events without charge.
From among the various print mediums, Mr. Summers concentrates on woodcuts which he feels offer simplicity, directness, and naturalness of process. His vocabulary of organic forms, landscape imagery and the human torso reflect the natural world, yet coalesce into a visual experience of luminous color and fluidity of form that defies specific definition.
Mr. Summers is representated in major museum collections in countries throughout the world including France, Italy, India, Sweden, Switzerland and England. Selected museum collections in the United States include the Boston Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
A recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1959 and a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Italy in 1961, Mr. Summers participated in a teaching tour of universities in India in 1974.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Forum Committee and the department of fine arts at Beaver College, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
