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"Father and Son," a moody mid century modern cubist harlequin painting by listed artist Margit Beck (Hungarian-American, 1911-1997). Presented in a vintage faux distressed wood frame with rustic white wood liner. Signed "Margit Beck" lower right. Image, 40.25"H x 30.25"W. Margit Beck was born in Tokay, Hungary in 1911 and received her art education at The Institute of Fine Arts, Oradea Mare, Romania. Coming to the United States in the 30's she studied at The Art Students League in New York. During the 1940's, Miss Beck's style as a cubist took form making use of angular patterns while using the most striking contrasts, by applying paint with the palette knife while using brilliant bursts of color amid prisms of light. Her early work utilized highly stylized figures in abstract form. By the mid 1950's she became a MacDowell fellow, and the time spent in the mountains of New Hampshire, gave her a new perspective by utilizing dazzling incandescent colors, vibrating movements applied to ethereal scenes of forest, mountain and universe. Each painting uses bold conceptions that are adroitly developed through the patterning of light and color into congruity of design, Margit Beck was no stranger to the American art scene. She has had 22one-man shows, including Contemporary Arts Gallery (New York City), The Babcock Galleries (New York City) and ACA Galleries (New York City) all of which have met with wide spread critical acclaim by newspapers and art publications. Miss Beck's paintings have been shown in nearly every major National as well as International exhibitions. She is represented in major permanent collections throughout the country. Miss Beck has been the recipient of some of the most prestigious award and honors awarded in the art field including 3 Childe Hassam Fund Purchase awards (1968,69,71). Miss Beck is a member of numerous art associations including, the National Academy of Design where she received academician in 1975. In reviewing her work The Herald Tribune wrote: "Painting becomes a God-like act as Margit Beck recreates the breadth and wonder of the west's open spaces in imaginative canvases that combine realist and abstract idioms with stunning effect. Aerial landscapes, mountain fastnesses, lowering storms are done with power, vision and verve that are close to breathtaking. Miss Beck's paintings, watercolors and drawings show a rarity of singular beauty and subtlety. Her imagery is based on complexed aerial views of cities and farmlands, and mountains, with their built-in geometric configurations and dizzying rush of space. Her work contains the contradictory, ambiguous elements of things seen from a great distance, but she distills from this telescopic approach a brilliant montage of shapes, stunningly distorted by space, yet enveloped by an overall logic, serenity and colorist quietude. It is Miss Beck's gift to make us experience her vertiginous heights without once disturbing the equilibrium required to see her paintings as first-rate works of art." By the 1970's Miss Beck's broad sweep of color indicating fields, hills, and valley, are replaced by trees, clusters of farm buildings and the geometric grid of roads, fences and plowed fields all put down giving great attention to the illusion of deep space. These canvases huge in size (70"x80") give the viewer a sense that the landscape is a patchwork quilt of patterns, with her mountains undulating with the concentric rhythm of their contours, and her villages and farms sparkling with a radiance of tiny jewels. In 1976 Ms. Beck was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. That along with the death of her husband of 40 years ultimately devastated the creative spirit that was essential in the creation of her mystical masterpieces. By 1984 it became impossible for her to hold a paintbrush and ultimately her body was ravaged by the deteriorating affects of her worsening condition. In 1997 she passed away. Studied: Institute of Fine Arts, Oradea Mare, Romania Art Students League, New York, N.Y. 1934-1936 Member: Artist Equity Association (formerly on Board of Directors 1965-1970); Audubon Artists (formerly Vice President and member of Executive Board); College Art Association; Women in the Arts National Academy of Design (elected Academician 1975) North Shore Community Art Center, (1963-1976) Awards and Honors: Edwin Palmer Memorial Award, National Academy of Design, 1975 The Paul Puzinas Memorial Award, National Academy of Design, 1978 Andrew Carnegie Award, oil, National Academy 1973 Medal of Honor, Audubon Artists 1968, 1972 Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award, American Acad. of Arts & Letters, 1968-69,71 M.R. Stern Award, oil, Audubon Artists, 1967 Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy of Design 1965 1973 Winsor & Newton Award, oil, Amer. Soc. Of Contemporary Artists, 1964 Johnson Award, oil, Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Conn 1963 Watercolor Award, Amer. Society of Contemporary Artists, 1962 Permanent Pigment Award, National Assoc. of Women Artists, 1963 Z. Gerstenzang Prize, oil, National Assoc. of Women Artists, 1961 Brooklyn Society of Artists Award, watercolor, 1962 Harry Strongin Award, Brooklyn Society of Contemporary Artists, 1961 Nellie Friedland Award, oil, Brooklyn Society of Artists, 1958 MacDowell Foundation Residence Fellowship 1956-57, 1959-60, 1975 Winsor & Newton Prize, oil, National Association of Women Artists, 1957 Gold Medal, oil, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. 1954 Purchase Prize, watercolor, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. 1955 Medal of Honor, National Association of Women Artists, 1956 First Prize, Portraiture, Suffolk Museum , Stoney Brook, N.Y. 1951 Collections: Whitney Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Ks. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Neb. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Fla. Norfolk Museum of Arts & Science, Norfolk, Va. Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Conn. West Texas Museum Lubbock, Tx. Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, N.C. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Herbert H. Lehman College, N.Y. Queens College Art Collection, N.Y. Mansfield State College, Mansfield, Pa. Hunter College, Bronx, N.Y. Glichtenstein Museum, Safaad, Isreal Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. Solo Exhibitions: ACA Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1981, 1983 Babcock Galleries, New York, N.Y. 1962, 64, 66, 68, 71, 72, 75 Contemporary Arts Gallery, 1955, 56, 58, 59, 60 Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C. 1959 Nassau Community College, Garden City, N.Y. 1973 Queens College, Flushing, N.Y. 1973 Great Neck Library, Great Neck, 1978 Port Washington, Port Washington, N.Y. 1978 Mansfield State College, Mansfield, Pa. 1965 San Joaquin Pioneer Museum Stockton, Ca. 1965 Selected Exhibitions: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 29th. Biennial (toured by A.F.A. for 3 years) Art in Embassy Program (American Embassy Copenhagen) 1956-57 Nat. Inst. of Arts & Letters, Annual Exhibition of Candidates for Grants 1960,66, 67, 68, American Academy ofArts & Letters, N.Y. Childe Hassam Fund Exhib. 1960, 62, 66, 68, 70, 71 Whitney Museum of Art, N.Y. Annuals 1956, 59, 60 Butler Inst. Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Brooklyn Museum International Watercolor Biennial, 1959, 61, 63, 67 University of Nebraska, 1957, 58 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phil. Pa. annuals, 1957, 66, 68 National Museum of Fine Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961, 63 Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1963 Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960 American Federation of Arts Travelling Exhibition, from Whitney Museum, 1961 Davenport Museum Art Gallery, Iowa, 1963 Institute of Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1960 Galeria I.B.E.U., Santiago, Chile, 1960 Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C. 1961 Telfair Academy of Arts, Savannah, Ga. 1961 Georgia Museum of Arts, Athens, Ga, 1961 University of Florida, Gainsville, Fla, 1961 Art Institute of Chicago, Ill. Annuals 1960, 61 J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky. 1960-61 Forum Gallery, N.Y. Outstanding Am. Landscape Painters by Invitation, 1963 Federation of Modern Painters, 35annual 1976-77 Artists 77, United Nation Annual, 1977 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 1970 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Ala. 1964 Birmingham Museum of Art, Biringham, Ala. University of Notre Dame, 1963 Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Conn. 1960-64 Art Association of Newport, Newport, R.I. 1968 Provincetown Art Festival, Provincetown, Ma. Chrysler Museum 1958 North Shore Art Center 1956-1967, 71 American Society of Contemporary Artists, Riverside Museum Annual 1958-1964 Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla. 1957, 59, 60, 61 Morse Gallery of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. 1956, 1961 National Association of Women Artists, N.Y. N.Y. annual 1954-1966 Audubon Artist Annual Exhibition 1956-1974 National Academy of Design, New York, 1953, 54, 55, 57, 73 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C. 1956, 57, 59, 64 Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, Annual Exhibition, 1955, 56, 57 Periodicals: 'Wistful Vista--Margit Beck at Babcock'. Author John Gruen...

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