Skirted Pan Lights above Interrogation Room; feature film, “Shack” - Stage #17
Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2014
Catalogue
- Year
- 1977
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm), each Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm), each Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm), each
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Robert Cumming
Artist

Printmaking
Robert Cumming was an American artist working primarily in photography and conceptual practice from the 1970s onward. His work engaged with systems of representation, perception, and the constructed nature of photographic evidence, often employing staged scenarios and visual paradoxes to interrogate how images communicate meaning.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Robert Cumming
- Year
- 1977
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm), each Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm), each Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm), each
- Watts ID
- WW-1977-012261
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





