Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Rosemarie Beck

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1967, 1970
More: www.rosemariebeck.org
Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) was an abstract expressionist painter from Westchester County, NY. Beck began her studies at Oberlin College and went on to attend Columbia University, the Art Students League in New York, The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and workshops with well-known artists Kurt Seligmann and Robert Motherwell. After completing her studies, Beck taught at Queens College of New York, Vassar College, Middlebury College, the Vermont Studio Center, and the New York Studio of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. Beck’s work was exhibited in several solo shows at venues across the United States, including the Allen Art Museum in Oberlin, OH, the Zachary Waller Gallery in Los Angeles, the New York Museum in Brooklyn, and the National Arts Club in New York. Beck’s work was also featured in several group shows by the National Academy, the Washington Art Association, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Studio School, and the Whitney Museum of Art. Beck’s work resides in collections at institutions such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the McCoy Institute, the Hirshhom Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the National Academy of Design and others.

Studios

Cheney

Rosemarie 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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