Bill Cumming mural saved, at MoNA
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February 12, 2020
CUMMING MURAL RESTORATION PROVES MONA’S PURPOSE – Brian Adams, left, director of Skagit County Parks and Recreation, is as pleased as Bruce Miller, conservator. Adams was instrumental in getting the 1941 William Cumming mural from the Breckenridge family’s farm to the Museum of Northwest Art. The 2014 rescue began a five year-plus odyssey including the year Miller spent preserving the mural. See it through March 15 in the second floor gallery. Admission is free. – Photo courtesy of Betsy Humphrey
There was a lot of speculation at the Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) Saturday night over how artist William Cumming’s mural ended up folded on a shelf in a Breckenridge family barn. Farmers, donors and art-enthusiasts exchanged stories at a celebration of the $500,000 valued mural that is now on exhibit in the museum.
Those who knew Cumming – a renowned Seattle painter – could agree that the artist himself would be pleased. In fact, his old friend and former MoNA board member Bruce Bradburn commented “Cumming would have thought it was ‘a damn fine evening.’”
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