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on view through Aug. 1
Mennello Museum of American Art
900 E. Princeton St.
$5
When Gainesville artist Mr. Eddy Mumma arose every morning, he was greeted by a crowd of eager faces, beaming at him from the hundreds of canvases that covered every inch of wall space in his small home. These were his paintings. These were his
friends. The vibrant friendly-throng effect is reproduced in miniature as part of the Mennello Museum s new exhibit,
The Grand Portraits of Mr. Eddy Mumma, on display until Aug. 1.
Eddy Mumma was a self-taught artist who did not start painting until he was 60, newly relocated to Gainesville, diabetic and homebound. Despite his health challenges, Mumma threw himself into his art fully, and by the end of his life, he had produced nearly a thousand paintings, many on both sides of a particular canvas or indeed doors, sheets of plywood or even glass. (A few of these double-sided canvases are on display, evidence of a compulsive work rate upon comple