biography of Raphael BECK (1858-1947)

Birth place: Lancaster, PA

Death place: Lockport, NY

Addresses: Buffalo, NY

Profession: Painter, sculptor, illustrator

Studied: With his father, Augustus Beck; Harrisburg Inst.; landscape with Paul Weber, in Munich; with Leon Baschet, Académie Julian, Paris, 1906.

Exhibited: NAD, 1892; Pan-Am. Expo., Buffalo, 1901 (prize); St. Louis Expo., 1904 (prize); Lewis and Clark Expo., Portland, 1905 (prize).

Member: Buffalo SA.

Comments: After study abroad moved to Lockport. At the turn of the century, opened a school for artists in Buffalo; taught at his studio in Lockport until 1946. Had a studio in Buffalo for over 30 years.

Sources: WW21; Krane, The Wayward Muse, 184.