Bill Cumming, age 93, died this morning of congestive heart failure. He held his last painting class at his home last Monday. On Thursday his friend Margaret Margason serenaded Bill. She brought with her high romantic music for Soprano by Robert Schumann and a Beatles songbook. This time Bill chose the Beatles – for a sing-along. The six portraits of the artist “in process” were photographed in the mid-60s by Victor Lygdman, who died earlier this year of the relatively “mere” age of 83. Victor was born ten years after Bill.