Discipline: Visual Art

Margit Beck

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Great Neck, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1957, 1959, 1960, 1975
Margit Beck (1911-1997) was an abstract expressionist painter from Tokay, Hungary. Beck began studying at The Institute of Fine Arts, Oradea Mare, Romania, and then came to the United States where she studied at The Art Students League in New York. After completing her studies, she taught at the National Academy of Design, the Art in America School of Painting, and the North Shore Community Arts Center. Beck has received several accolades for her work, including the Andrew Carnegie Prize, the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize, the Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize, the Paul Puzinas Memorial Award, the Childe Hassan Prize from the American Academy, the Wisor + Newton Award, the national Association of Women Artists Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Beck’s work resides in numerous collections, including the Peabody Museum, the Corcoran Galleries, the Morse Museum, the Norfolk Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and the Whitney. Beck was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Studios

Cheney

Margit Beck worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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