Carol Summers (December 26, 1925 – October 27, 2016) was an American printmaker, known for creating works by woodcut process.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1951, studying with Stefan Hirsch and Louis Schanker.
Summers created his prints through a process he developed in the 1950s that became known in as the "Carol Summers technique": soaking large blocks of wood in ink, he placed them in patterns on one side of a piece of paper in order to, as one reviewer described his work, "give beautiful, blurry, shapes to the other side.
[3] In addition to his art, Summers had a career as a teacher, serving as an instructor at Hunter College, the Brooklyn Museum School, Pratt Graphics Center, and Columbia University.
[4] He was a resident of Santa Cruz, California, where he died on October 27, 2016, at the age of 90.