Artist

Frank E. Cummings III

born Los Angeles, CA 1938
Media - portrait_image_113191.jpg - 90126
Courtesy Frank E. Cummings.
Also known as
  • Frank Cummings
Born
Los Angeles, California, United States
Active in
  • Long Beach, California, United States
Biography

Frank E. Cummings III is a Professor of Fine Arts at California State University, Fullerton, where he received his MA in 1971. He also served as Associate Dean of the School of the Arts at CSU from 1982 to 1993. He has been a consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts and for the State Department.

Cummings's one man exhibition traveled in 1981 throughout Africa, including stops in Ghana, Gabon, Madagascar, and Malawi. Cummings has also shown his work in Lagos, Nigeria. His work is feature in the show "Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects," a show of African-American craft artists which has travelled to the American Craft Museum in New York City, the Museum of African American Life and Culture in Dallas, and the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, [now the Smithsonian American Art Museum] in Washington, D.C..

White House Collection of American Crafts exhibition (Washington D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1995)

Works by this artist (4 items)

Carousel: Age of Awareness
Date1994
walnut, ebony, black onyx, 18K gold, pearl rubellite
Not on view
Frank E. Cummings III, Ode to Today, 1993, ebony, 18k gold, pearls, and imperial topaz, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler in honor of Kenneth R. Trapp, curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery (1995--2003), 2003.60.7A-C
Ode to Today
Date1993
ebony, 18k gold, pearls, and imperial topaz
Not on view
Frank E. Cummings III, On the Edge Naturally, 1990, kingwood burl, 18k gold, and mother-of-pearl, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur and Charles Bresler, 2002.66A-B
On the Edge Naturally
Date1990
kingwood burl, 18k gold, and mother-of-pearl
Not on view
Frank E. Cummings III, Lady Lace with New Shoes, 1989, black walnut, ivory, gold and onyx, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George Peter Lamb and Lucy Scardino in memory of Natalie Rust Lamb, 1995.100.4
Lady Lace with New Shoes
Date1989
black walnut, ivory, gold and onyx
Not on view