Oral history interview with William Cumming
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 29 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Cumming, William
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wash.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
label: Names
content: Elshin, Jacob Alexander, 1892-1976
label: Names
content: Farwell, Denise
label: Names
content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
label: Names
content: Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cumming, William
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Cumming is a painter from Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 April 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cummin65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of William Cumming conducted by Dorothy Bestor on 1965 April 3 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cumming speaks of getting on the Federal Art Project; meeting Morris Graves; problems with the way the project was administered and supervised; destruction of some of the art work produced by the project; his feelings about federal support for the arts; his existential philosophy on life; and his views on current trends in painting. He recalls Jacob Elshin, Robert Bruce Inverarity, Mark Tobey, Denise Farwell, Guy Anderson.