Grandmother

William Cumming, is a well-known self-taught artist and member of the Northwest School.  Much of the power – much of the appeal, frankly – of Cumming's work is a result of its expressive ambiguity. A Cumming painting is both personal and populist, abstract and literal, hard-nosed and romantic. Sometimes it is geometry disguised as biography, sometimes it is the other way around.  – Tom Robbins, 2007.