Background
Cummings, Marvin Earl was born on August 13, 1876 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Son of M. E. and Ardelle (Clawson) Cummings.
Cummings, Marvin Earl was born on August 13, 1876 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Son of M. E. and Ardelle (Clawson) Cummings.
Educated in Salt Lake public schools, Salt Lake Business College and academic at Logan, Utah. Student Mark Hopkins The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco. Pupil of Douglas Tilden.
Student Beaux Arts, Paris, 1900-1903.
Professor sculpture Hopkins Institute and University of California Executed numerous statues in and around San Francisco. Principal work, Commodore Sloat Monument, Monterey, California Chairman advisory committee artists and architects, Board of Park Commissioners, San Francisco (member board 1904-1928). Trustee California Palace of Legion of Honor, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Home: 3966 Clay St., San Francisco California‡.
Member board 1904-1928).
Married Lupe Rivas, of San Francisco, June 7, 1905.