Cyrus M. Running
Cyrus M. Running was an American regionalist painter.
Cyrus Maynard Running was born in Veblen, South Dakota. He was the son of Lutheran minister Alfred Running and his musician wife, Julia Sophia Olson. Cyrus Running graduated from St. Olaf College and the University of Iowa. A student of Grant Wood, he is sometimes considered a regionalist. Much of his art focused on themes common to Minnesota or Norway. He was a member of the faculty of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, for many years.