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100 MILLENNIUM W ith a focus on and expertise in nude painting, landscapes and still life, Francis Cunningham has over four decades of professional experience in the arts. At the tender age of 4, Mr. Cunningham’s passion for art was ignited as he began painting and drawing. He later won the Berkshire Museum award in the under 6 category for watercolor painting and was singled out at the Boston Museum summer session for his talent. Honing in on his passion and artistic abilities, he attended art school at the age of 16 before earning a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1953 and completing postgraduate work with the Art Students League in 1959. Throughout his career, Mr. Cunningham’s work has been featured in many one-man shows in New York City, Massachusetts, Chicago, Virginia, Denmark and Sweden. His work has also been included in group shows sponsored by the Forum Gallery in New York City, the National Academy of Design, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors, the Art Students League of New York, Galerie Susanne Højriis, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He showed his work at a master’s exhibition of the Century Association in 2013 and is currently working on a book that he is anxious to publish. He has excelled at many things during his career, including co-founding the New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture and co-directing the New York Academy of Art. Despite facing many rejections of his nude paintings by New York galleries, he has continued to persevere while running his active gallery. His talent has earned him the Purchase Award from the Berkshire Museum, the Peebles Award, the Benjamin West Cliendinst Memorial Medal for exceptional artistic merit, as well as many fellowships. Mr. Cunningham attributes his success to the inspiration of his godmother and the support of his wife. Francis Cunningham Artist New York, NY