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Dunbar Dyson Beck

Dunbar Dyson Beck (1903 - 1986) was active/lived in New York, California.  Dunbar Beck is known for Genre, figure, religion, mural, designer, educator.

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Dunbar Dyson Beck became a muralist, interior designer, painter and art educator.  His work included a gold-leaf mural decoration for the band on a Steinway Grand Piano, which Theodore Steinway gifted to President Theodore Roosevelt.  The piano remains in the East Room of the White House.

Beck was born in Delaware, Ohio and was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University; Northwestern University; and Yale University where he received his BFA.  He entered the American Academy in Rome national competition in painting during his last year at Yale.  He won the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to study master painters of Europe, as well as travel extensively and study traditional the arts and cultures of several European countries.

He became a teacher at Yale University and later worked as an interior decorator and architectural designer.  In the 1930s and 1940s, Beck went back and forth between New York and California, and from 1942, lived   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2082 characters.]  Artist bio

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"Orpheus Over the Globe"
Dunbar Dyson Beck
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Price:  $3,500
Title:  Orpheus Over the Globe
Type:  Painting
Medium:  Gouache
Ground:  Paper
Style:  Figuration
Subject:  Figure/Portrait/Genre/Nude
Signature:  Unsigned
Size:  14.25" x 20.50"

Description:  Painted by Dunbar Beck, one of America's finest muralists in the 1930s and 40s, this classic example of Art Deco stylized allegorical painting served as a study for a series of murals that Beck painted for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Beck also painted a WPA mural for the Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts, along with a number of private commissions.

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