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The Sumner Files: East 4th Street, mid-1980s Two paintings of Sumner's block, and some stories about his place there.

In this week's Sumner Files, two paintings of the block where #sumnercrane lived from around 1978-86. I use them as a prompt to reconstruct some of his life, relationships and art during this period, a particularly fertile one for him. deepconvection.substack.com/p/the-sumner...

The Sumner Files: Urban landscapes, 1982-1986 Scenes from Lower Manhattan, painted during the last years that Sumner lived there.

In this week's Sumner Files: urban landscapes from lower Manhattan, painted in the early/mid 80s, the last years in which #sumnercrane lived in the borough. Diverse in light, color and perspective, by turns sweeping, intimate, and gritty. tinyurl.com/2kkknkm8

The Sumner Files: African centaurs, 1998 Zebra-supermodel hybrids.

In this week's Sumner Files: zebra centaurs. tinyurl.com/j2fhhxbu #sumnercrane

The Sumner Files: Shopping Centaurs, 1989 A major Sumner masterwork

It feels a little wrong to post about art at this time. But it's what's keeping me sane. So, here's the weekly Sumner Files, on a major #sumnercrane masterwork, dated 1989: The Shopping Centaurs.
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The Sumner Files, Episode Nine: Arto Lindsay, Again

This week on the Sumner Files: the first new audio podcast episode in some months. I spoke to Arto Lindsay again, now in person, after we'd looked through the #sumnercrane archive (in which Arto is well represented, incl. drawings he did for Jack Texas) for a couple hours. tinyurl.com/4tt3f2wv

The Sumner Files: Juvenilia, Part 3 On adult Sumner connecting with children through art.

To finish up the series on #sumnercrane and childhood, a few stories on adult Sumner's interactions with the children in his life via art. tinyurl.com/3jwv3ajt

The Sumner Files: Juvenilia, Part 2 Drawings of musicians, and the confluences between music and visual art in young Sumner's consciousness.

In which I show drawings of musicians by child and teenage Sumner, and consider the confluences of music and visual art in his early life. bit.ly/48dE9yB #sumnercrane

The Sumner Files: Juvenilia, Part 1 On comics, and artistic links between childhood and adulthood

In which I show some of Sumner's childhood drawings. I consider the influence of comics on his work, and the way youth and age met in it, figuratively and sometimes literally. #sumnercrane tinyurl.com/4vdaacmc

The Sumner Files: Jack Texas, Bob Powell, and Cave Girl, early 1980s This week I’m jumping to the early 1980s.

In the early 80s, #sumnercrane, Rudolph Grey and Arto Lindsay all signed the name Jack Texas to their visual art. Sumner and Rudolph did works based on comic book panels by Sumner's hero, artist Bob Powell, including a couple of Powell's "Cave Girl" character. More here bit.ly/49d6hTq

The Sumner Files: Episode Zero

New on our podcast site: the first of a new series, The Sumner Files, that I'm doing on my uncle, the artist and musician Sumner Crane (1946-2003). This is episode zero, where I explain what it's about and why I'm doing it. deep-convection.org/2025/02/18/t... #sumnercrane #mars #nowave