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Maurice Becker

Maurice Becker (1889 - 1975) was active/lived in New York / Mexico.  Maurice Becker is known for Political themed genre and figure painting, cartoons.

Maurice Becker, painter, political cartoonist and social reformer, was born in 1889 either in Gorky or Niznij Novgorod, in Russia. His family came to the United States in 1892, to New York City. After high school, Becker worked in a clothing factory. He studied with Ash Can School artist Robert Henri in 1908, and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City when he was only twenty-four years of age.

At the Armory show, Becker showed a drawing of a dog's head, sketched in charcoal on a sheet of newspaper. But he became known for black and white drawings expressing his intense feelings about what he saw as injustices in America, and with the advent of World War I, his strong anti-war position. These drawings appeared in left-wing publications like The Daily Worker, The Masses, Liberator, and New Solidarity.

Becker knew artist John Sloan, who was editor of The Masses, so Sloan published drawings such as Becker's Ammunition in the June   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7019 characters.]  Artist bio

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