Beatrice Cuming
{{short description|American artist}}
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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
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| death_place = Uncasville, Connecticut
| nationality = American
| education = Pratt Institute, Académie Colarossi, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Art Students League of New York
| field = Painting, Printmaking, Educator
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Beatrice Laving Cuming (1903–1974) was an American illustrator known for her work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Biography
Cuming was born in 1903 in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web |title=Beatrice Cuming |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Beatrice_Lavis_Cuming/113576/Beatrice_Lavis_Cuming.aspx |website=AskArt |access-date=13 October 2022}} She studied at the Pratt Institute and spent several summers in Boothbay Harbor, Maine studying with Henry B. Snell. Cuming spent the years 1924 through 1926 in Europe and Africa. In Paris she studied at the Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière as well as with André Lhote and at the Académie Moderne. She returned to the United states for a few years, studying at the Art Students League of New York. In the 1930s Cuming traveled to Tunisia with Dahris Butterworth Martin.{{cite web |title=Cuming, Beatrice |url=https://ctstatelibrary.org/cuming-beatrice/ |website=Connecticut State Library |access-date=13 October 2022}}
In 1934 Cuming moved to New London, Connecticut. She worked for two Works Progress Administration programs, the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project. Cuming went on to teach art in the New London public schools, the Lyman Allyn Museum, and her own studio in New London.{{cite web |title=Cuming, Beatrice Laving |url=https://connecticutcreativeplaces.org/people/cuming-beatrice-laving |website=Creative Places |access-date=13 October 2022}} She died in 1974 in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Cuming was the recipient of six MacDowell fellowships (1934, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1952).{{cite web |title=Beatrice Cuming - Artist |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/beatrice-cuming |website=MacDowell |access-date=13 October 2022 |language=en}} Her work was included in the 1942 exhibition Art in War at the Museum of Modern Art.{{cite web |title=Beatrice Cuming |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/65396 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=13 October 2022 |language=en}} In 1990 the Lyman Allyn Art Museum held a retrospective of her work.{{cite web |last1=Zimmer |first1=William |title=ART; New London's Quirky Individualist Left a Record of the City's Geometry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/nyregion/art-new-londons-quirky-individualist-left-a-record-of-the-citys.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=18 October 2022 |date=4 March 1990}} Her work is in the collection of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Beatrice Cuming |url=https://www.lymanallyn.org/beatrice-cuming/ |website=Lyman Allyn Art Museum |access-date=13 October 2022}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Clinic 1920–34 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/374593 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=13 October 2022}} and the National Gallery of Art.{{cite web |title=Beatrice Lavis Cuming |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33325.html |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=13 October 2022}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Beatrice-Cuming/CAFEA63C3020F997 images of Cumin's work] at Mutual Art
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Category:Artists from Brooklyn
Category:American women artists