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James Cumming (1922–1991) was a Scottish painter and lecturer influential in The Edinburgh School in the post-war period. ==Biography== Cumming was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1922. He was educated at Dunfermline High School and Edinburgh College of Art, where he lectured until the early 1980s. At school he was remembered as a serious student who strove for the best results in everything he did. He showed early promise in music, excelling in piano and winning distinction at every grade. His artistic talents were nurtured at school by the teacher and artist George Watson. He displayed an early determination to become an artist, winning an Andrew Grant Scholarship to attend Edinburgh College of Art between 1939 and 1947, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. In 1941 he joined the RAF, completed pilot training at Terrell, Texas, in 1944 and served in RAF Transport Command in India and Burma. Returning to his studies he completed his Diploma in 1948 and his postgraduate degree in 1949. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship, which he used to live and work in the remote island community of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. He created an acclaimed series of paintings, known as the Hebridean paintings, during this period that later helped to establish Cumming, broadly speaking, as painter of The Edinburgh School.〔(The Scottish Gallery Website )〕 Cumming’s work was included in the important 1993 Scottish Gallery retropspective exhibition entitled ''The Edinburgh School''. This exhibition also showed the works of Robin Philipson and William Gillies both of whom were close artistic and academic assosciates of Cumming. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Cumming (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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