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Birth
1889 (Gorky, Russia)
Death
1975 (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
Lived/Active
New York
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New York Armory Show of 1913
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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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 char (showing 500 of 2865 characters). |
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