Carol Summers

(American, born 1925, died 2016)

Late artist Carol Summers (1925-2016) was a renowned Santa Cruz, California-based printmaker, specializing in woodcut prints. He is known for pioneering "monumental" woodcut prints and a specific method of relief printing for large-scale works.

Summers taught art at many institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Hunter College, Columbia University, and the School of Visual Arts (all in New York City). He studied painting and printmaking at Bard College in New York State from 1948 to 1951.