Editing E. E. Cummings (section)

===Art===
Cummings was an avid painter, referring to writing and painting as his <q>twin obsessions</q><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Milton |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/59693901 |title=Poetandpainter: The aesthetics of E. E. Cummings's early works |date=1987 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=0-8143-1845-2 |oclc=59693901}}</ref> and to himself as a <q>poetandpainter.</q><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Milton |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/9353165 |title=E. E. Cumming's paintings: The hidden career |date=1982 |publisher=University of Texas at Dallas |oclc=9353165}}</ref> He painted <q>continuously, relentlessly, from childhood until his death, and left in his estate more than 1600 oils and watercolors (a figure that does not include the works he sold during his career) and over 9,000 drawings.</q><ref name=":2" /> In a self-interview from ''Foreword to an Exhibit: II'' (1945), the artist asked himself, <q>Tell me, doesn't your painting interfere with your writing?</q> and answered, <q>Quite the contrary: they love each other dearly.</q><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cummings |first1=E. E. |title=E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany |date=1966 |publisher=Peter Owen Limited |location=London |page=316 |edition=First British Commonwealth |url=https://archive.org/details/eecummingsmiscel0000unse/page/n9/mode/2up}}</ref>

Cummings had more than 30 exhibits of his paintings in his lifetime.<ref name=":2" /> He received substantial acclaim as an American [[Cubism|cubist]] and an abstract, avant garde painter between the World Wars, but with the publication of his books ''[[The Enormous Room]]'' and ''[[Tulips and Chimneys]]'' in the 1920s, his reputation as a poet eclipsed his success as a visual artist.<ref name=":2" /> In 1931, he published a limited edition volume of his artwork entitled ''[[CIOPW]]'', named for his media of charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor. About this same time, he began to break from [[Modernism|Modernist]] aesthetics and employ a more subjective and spontaneous style;<ref name=":2" /> his work became more representational: landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and portraits.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hobbs |first=Patricia |date=2018-10-18 |title=Recent Gift Illustrates Poet's 'Twin Obsessions' |url=https://columns.wlu.edu/recent-gift-illustrates-poets-twin-obsessions/ |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=The Columns |language=en}}</ref>