Charles Atherton Cumming
American artist and educator
📍 Des Moines, Iowa USA
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Charles Atherton Cumming (1858–1932) was an American painter, muralist, educator, and arts administrator whose career played a pioneering role in the development of art education and cultural institutions in Iowa. Trained in Chicago and Paris in the academic tradition, he became one of the leading figures in Iowa's artistic community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He founded the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines and later became the founding head of the art department at the University of Iowa.
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