Driving Cattle

William Cumming, born in 1917 is a well-known, self-taught artist and member of the Northwest School. His imagination takes flight in colorful figurative tempera paintings distinguished by complex, fluidly interwoven compositions.  He worked on WPA projects in the 1930s, witnessed a legendary Cornish fracas starring John Cage and Morris Graves, won Bellevue Art Museum's lifetime achievement award in 1995, and he's still making work in a spirit of perpetual springtime. - Victoria Ellison, Seattle Weekly, April 2000.