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Academic Shading Exercise by Robert Cumming — VisualArtsDB

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Academic Shading Exercise

1975

Medium: Two gelatin silver prints
Dimensions: a 7 11/16 × 9 5/8" (19.5 × 24.4 cm) b 7 5/8 × 9 1/2" (19.4 × 24.1 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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