About e.e. Cummings

American, 1894 - 1962

From the outset of his career, e. e. cummings considered himself to be a "poet and painter". Early on in his career it appeared that both cummings's "twin obsessions " would be recognized. Having exhibited & published his artwork extensively by the late 1920's, however, cummings's reputation as a poet had eclipsed his work as a painter. A committed radical innovator, he was a lifelong painter.