John Richard Cummings was born November 22, 1951 In Akron, Ohio. Art has been and still is a very important part of his life. Over the course of time, he has studied composition art, which included a variety of subject matter, (wildlife, still life, and people), under Jack Richards. He studied Anatomy Art under Dino Massononi. Cummings also studied Wildlife art with Mark Moser, and Still Life, as well as people with Ken Pledger. His natural gift for the arts combined with the skills he has acquired from his teachers and other artistic minds, have given him an amazing ability to capture mood, apply colors and textures, as well as use any number of techniques combined with his very own style to make any of his creations truly one of a kind.

     Special thanks to his mother which started him out in art at the early age of six. Because of a hyperactive problem with his health, his mother started him out on art material which lead him to be where he is now. Art is his life, and it will always be, until the end.
    
     He has done art across the states of which some have been of a mayor (Tom Sawyer), and for the mayor (Roy Ray), of Akron, Ohio. (See Tom Sawyer's letter to John) He also has done work for the Akron Police Museum, and has done paintings for several of the offices at Akron's City Hall.