Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 1930s and the Northwest School - Hardcover

Cumming, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295961562 ISBN 13: 9780295961569

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr, 1984

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

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Bill Cumming is at once an exceptional and successful regional artist and one of the most erudite, perceptive, and entertainingly cantankerous characters in this part of the world. [He] tells what it was like to be an artist in the Great Depression, tells tales out of school about such international luminaries as Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, tells how the Northwest School (of which he was the youngest member) developed, tells about the early success and ultimate failure of the Communist movement in the Far West, and shows how the political, economic, and cultural events of a half-century affected the life of a region and of its creative minority. Cumming is a natural raconteur, equipped with more literary wit and charm than most professional writers." Tom Robbins

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0295961562
• ISBN 13: 9780295961569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288