Frederick Sommer

b 1905 - d 1999 Artist and photographer born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University where he met Frances Elisabeth Watson (September 20, 1904 – April 10, 1999) whom he married in 1928; they had no children. The Sommers moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1931 and then Prescott, Arizona in 1935. Sommer became a naturalized citizen of the United States on November 18, 1939. Throughout the 1930's and 40's, Sommer created a number of "drawings in the manner of musical scores", which were first performed in 1968 at Prescott College by Stephen Aldrich (2) and Walton Mendelson. These were recorded later on 10672807.