Carol Summers

Carol Summers (December 26, 1925 – October 27, 2016) was an American printmaker and educator, known for creating works by woodcut process.

Early life and education Carol Summers was born in 1925 in Kingston, New York.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951 from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, studying with Stefan Hirsch and Louis Schanker.

Career Summers created his prints through a process he developed in the 1950s that became known in as the "Carol Summers technique": soaking large blocks of wood in ink, he placed them in patterns on one side of a piece of paper in order to, as one reviewer described his work, "give beautiful, blurry, shapes to the other side. The results are simple, decorative and uniquely vibrant."

In 1955, he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship; and in 1959, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Teaching career In addition to his art, Summers had a career as a teacher, serving as an instructor at Hunter College, the Brooklyn Museum School, Pratt Graphics Center, and Columbia University.

Collections His work is part of the collection of the Tate in London; the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh; Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Personal life He was a resident of Bonny Doon, California, and later Santa Cruz, California.