This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Raised in an Air Force family, Dan Beck became a committed figure and portrait painter, especially of female figures.
He saw many parts of the country as a youth but graduated from high school in Louisiana and then worked jobs between there and Florida. He served Army time in Germany and then committed himself to education and enrolled at the University of Colorada at Colorado Springs. After two years, he focused on art as a career and enrolled in the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver.
Moving to Arizona at age 30, he connected with a group of dedicated artists but was low on money so returned to Denver and studied at the Art Students League for four years. His work began to attract the attention of galleries, and his favorite subject was women.
He settled in Colorado Springs and works mostly in oils but continues with the pastels that launched his career.
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Southwest Art magazine
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Biography from Waterhouse Gallery:
| Daniel Wayne Beck is a painter of figurative, still-life and landscape subjects and is also an art teacher. His work has also been featured in Southwest Art, Art of the West magazines and Art Talk.
In the decade following his graduation from high school, Dan worked jobs that included being a ranch-hand in Arizona, construction on the beach of Florida, refinishing furniture in Louisiana, and four years in the infantry. He credits those wanderlust years of giving him a deep understanding of human nature, which underlies his figurative works. His love of nature and respect for the tradition of art serve as both guide and inspiration to his goal of "making a contribution" to the world of painting. For the underlying themes of his paintings, he strives to evoke a timelessness and dignity.
Dan Beck has had classes and workshops with artists including Ramon Kelley, Richard Schmid, Ron Hicks, Quang Ho, Carolyn Anderson and Mark Daily.
Beck now lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.
Awards of Excellence include Oil Painters of America, National 2008 & 2007; Salon International 2008; OPA Central Regional Show 2007; and Raymar Art Competition.
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Biography from Watts Fine Art:
| Dan Beck is an award winning artist with six consecutive Oil Painters of America awards of excellence (three National & three Regional). He has also won two consecutive Raymar Art Competition Awards of Excellence.
The Southwest Art November 2008 issue had a feature article “A Painter’s Playlist” and his painting Waiting as selected for the cover of that issue. He has also been featured in Art of the West" magazines and Art Talk.
Beck has been invited to nationally prominent shows such as the annual American Miniature Show at Settlers West Galleries, Tucson, Arizona; the annual "Fall Classic" in Hamilton, Montana; and the annual Great American Figurative Artists Show at Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, California.
His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on a national level as well as from such diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East.
He is in the permanent collection of the Littleton Historical Museum and has exhibited with the Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
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