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|  Dunbar Dyson Beck became a muralist, interior designer, painter and art
educator. His work included a gold-leaf mural decoration for the
band on a Steinway Grand Piano, which Theodore Steinway gifted to
President Theodore Roosevelt. The piano remains in the East Room
of the White House.
Beck was born in Delaware, Ohio and was educated at Ohio Wesleyan
University; Northwestern University; and Yale University where he
received his BFA. He entered the American Academy in Rome
national competition in painting during his last year at Yale. He
won the Prix de Rome, which allowed him to study master painters of
Europe, as well as travel extensively and study traditional the arts
and cultures of several European countries.
He
became a teacher at Yale University and later worked as an interior
decorator and architectural designer. In the 1930s and 1940s,
Beck went back and forth between New York and California, and from
1942, lived exclusively in California.
He settled in Sacramento, where he died on February
23, 1986. He was a juror for exhibitions at the Kingsley Art
Club, and completed church murals and mosaics and did 14 oil paintings
of the Stations of the Cross for St. Rose's Church in Sacramento.
He also did work for churches in Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania.
The
artist exhibited at the Prix de Rome (1927); 48 State Comp. (1939); and
in Sacramento, CA (1940, 1945, 1946). Beck painted a portrait of
William Adams Delano in 1934, which the sitter donated to the
collection of the National Academy of Design, New York City. His
work is included in the White House's East Room, Washington DC; the
Rockefeller Center; and Smith College.
Sources:
Larry Charles, authorized biographer of the estate of the artist. Information provided November 2005.
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
http://www.delanoye.org/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=36&Topic=99
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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