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Frederick Sommer

American Photographer · 1905–1999

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The son of a city planner, Frederick Sommer was trained as an architect in Brazil. He began to exhibit his drawings in Brazil while still a teenager. His work was so accomplished that he was accepted to the architecture department at Cornell University, though he had not received an undergraduate degree and did not yet speak English. Sommer purchased his first camera around 1931 while he was in Sw

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Date
1955
Medium
Glue color drawing
Culture
American
Department
Drawings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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Three abstract forms made through long, smooth lines. The forms, possibly figural, begin in lighter hues of pink, white, and brown, and become progressively darker moving from the left to the right.

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