Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 30s & the Northwest School.

[Northwest Artists] Cumming, William.

ISBN 10: 0295961562 / ISBN 13: 9780295961569

Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1984

Description:

A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Cumming was the youngest member of what has been termed the Northwest School of art--a regional movement that included such luminaries as Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Richard Gilkey. In this memoir, he writes of the artist's life in the Northwest in the 1930s, the Federal Art Project, the communist movement and more on the specific artists. Seller Inventory # 24728

About this title:

Synopsis: William Cumming began as a self-taught artist who grew up in Tukwila, a small town outside Seattle. In 1937, at the age of twenty, he met Morris Graves, who was at that time working in Seattle for the Federal Art project of the Works Progress Administration. Through Graves he soon became part of the circle of friends who came to be known as the Northwest School of artists: Mark Tobey, then nearing fifty, the patriarchal leader of the group; Kenneth Callahan and his wife Margaret, a writer and critic who became Cumming's particular mentor; Guy Anderson, Lubin Petric, and others. He has taught for many years at the Art Institute of Seattle and Cornish College of the Arts.

Synopsis: The author, a successful regional artist, describes life for artists working during the Depression for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 30s & the ...
Publisher: University of Washington Press, Seattle
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Printing of the First Edition.