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Birth
1864 (Dayton, Ohio)
Death
1954 (Lexington, Kentucky)
Lived/Active
New York
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figure, portrait, marine, sculptor
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Civil War Art
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Born near Dayton, Ohio, Walter Beck became a well-known late 19th century painter, etcher, muralist and sculptor with a wide range of subject matter that included figure, marine and a series of Civil War portraits. In the 1930s he turned his talents to landscape design and began building Innisfree, one of the premier gardens in the United States located in the Hudson River Valley near Millbrook, New York. During most of his career, he was based in New York.
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