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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
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William Earl Cunningham was convicted in Aug. 2020 of deliberate homicide in the 2014 death of 40-year-old
Nathan Horn. It was the second time Cunningham was convicted for killing Horn.
BREAKING NEWS: William Cunningham was found guilty for the deliberate homicide of Nathan Horn in 2014. Cunningham was initially found guilty in 2015, but was granted a re-trial in 2018.
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The Montana Supreme Court overturned Cunningham’s 2015 conviction and initial 80-year sentence, granting him a new trial after the court reasoned that he was denied the opportunity to question the background and credibility of one of the prosecution’s witnesses. The court also found that Cunningham was not permitted to testify about the circumstances that may have supported his self-defense plea, including why he may have had reason to fear Horn.