biography of Dunbar Dyson BECK (1902-1986)

Birth place: Delaware, OH

Death place: Sacramento, CA

Addresses: Sacramento, CA, ca. 1940-1986

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; Northwestern Univ.; Yale Univ., B.F.A.; F., Am. Acad. in Rome.

Exhibited: Prix de Rome, 1927; 48 State Comp., 1939 (prize); Sacramento, Cal., 1940, 1945, 1946

Work: Decorations, East Room, White House, Wash., DC. Altar, church paintings, N.Y., Phila., St. Paul, Sacramento. Des., Sacramento Bee, Modesto Bee Bldgs. (Cal.); Rockefeller Center, NYC; Smith College

Sources: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 40 who cites a birth date of 1903.