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07/08/2005
Lisa Bush Hankin
Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, NY
Along with landscape architect Lester Collins, Walter Beck designed a garden retreat in Millbrook, NY that is now open to the public. It was also profiled in a recent New York Times article (7/1/05 "Day Trip: In the Garden of Yin, Yang, and Yeats").
08/06/2003
Rev. Dr. Karl Essmark
Beck
Foster, commenting on self-development in drawing by Beck is correct. Beck later incorporated some of these ideas into the
last of his work with
the starch method.
Beck married a second time and moved to Millbrook, NY where he
established the gardens at Innis Free. They were
cup gardens, a phrase Beck coined. He died in Millbrook in the early 1950's. The bookstore in town has a book those seeking more information on this great artist might find helpful. The bookstore is called the Merritt Bookstore.
Happy reading/researching
11/11/2002
Douglas W. Foster
Walter Otto Beck as author
I believe this is the same Walter Otto Beck who, in 1928, authored a book published by Knickerbocker Press entitled "Self Development in Drawing as shown by the genius of Romano Dazzi". Dazzi, born in 1905 in Rome I believe, showed an extraordinary talent for drawing at an early age. He was the son of Arturo Dazzi, sculptor. Beck in this book tried to show how self development in art could produce a freshness and spontaneity in art. Dazzi, with that great ability should have become a world class artist - but I've not been able to trace his career beyond the mid 1920's - other than a few notes here and there.
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