Robert Cumming postcard - Mother

Artist/Creator: Robert Cumming (Creator)
Date: October 16, 1971
ID #: M/T 260.06
Level of Description: Item

Object Description

Item is a postcard by Robert Cumming with a photograph of a tombstone with engraving "MOTHER" and a photograph of a hamburger on a scale. Includes handwritten text: "Someone's Mother is in the Earth / Hamburger on stage 'neath spotlights / How were the postcards opening night? / Cumming / 227 S. Shaffer / Orange, Calif. / 92666 / Headstone; Southboro, Mass. / From "the weaight of franchise meat" - Burger King whopper."

Physical Description

Physical Extent: 1 postcard : b&w and col. photographs with black ink on cardboard ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm
Material Type: Graphic material, Textual record

History

Collection: Morris/Trasov Archive
Robert Cumming correspondence
Credit Line: –
Related Exhibitions: –

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