biography of Margit BECK (1911-1997)

Birth place: Tokay, Hungary

Addresses: Great Neck, NY

Profession: Painter, lecturer

Studied: Inst. Fine Arts, Oradea Mare, Romania; ASL.

Exhibited: CGA Biennial, 1965; PAFA annual, 1966; other PAFA exh, 1957-68 (4 times); WMAA 1958-60; Brooklyn Mus. Int. Watercolor Biennial, 1959-67 (4 times); AIC, 1960-61; NAD, 1965 (Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Award); Am. Acad. Arts & Lett., 1968 (Childe Hassam Purchase Award), 1970-71; Audubon Artists, 1968 (med. of hon.), 1972; Babcock Gal., NYC, 1970s

Member: NA, 1975; AEA (exec. bd. mem., 1965-70); Audubon Artists (v. pres., 1966-70)

Work: WMAA; J.B. Speed Mus, Louisville, Ky.; Washington Cnty. MFA, Hagerstown, MD; Lyman Allyn Mus., New London, CT; Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sci., Norfolk, VA. Commissions: portrait of Bayonne (oil), NJ Jewish Community Art Cntr., Bayonne, 1972.

Comments: Teaching: lecturer, Hofstra Univ., 1966-67; New York Univ., 1967-70s.

Sources: WW73; Brian O'Doherty, Unfashionable Virtues of a Personal Cubism," New York Times, May 12, 1962; Mel Shapiro, "Margit Beck," Long Island (Dec, 1962); John Gruen, "Wistful Vista," New York Magazine (Feb 1, 1971)."