Background
Becker, Maurice was born on January 4, 1889 in Nizhni Novgorod, now Gorki, Russia. Son of Isor and Rose (Simonoff) Becker.
Becker, Maurice was born on January 4, 1889 in Nizhni Novgorod, now Gorki, Russia. Son of Isor and Rose (Simonoff) Becker.
Brought to the United States at age of 3. Student Commercial High School, New York City, 1 year. Studied art with Robt.
Henri and Homer Boss, New York City.
Exhibited at Armory Show, 1913. Contributing art editor Masses (magazine), 1913-1917. Member art staff New York Call and New York Tribune, 1915.
Artist correspondent, West Indies, for Scripps National Education Association Syndicate, 1917.
Painted in Mexico, 1921-1923. Exhibited with Orozco and Rivera in Mexico, 1922.
Exhibited 1-man shows Whitney Studio, 1924, J.B. Neumann Gallery, Delphic Studio, 1930, Dorothy Paris Gallery, 1935, Artists Gallery, 1940, Macbeth Gallery, 1942, 45, A.F.I. Gallery, 1952, Hartert Galleries, 1954, 55, 57, Art of Today Gallery, 1955, Mansfield 1st National Bank (Pennsylvania). Exhibited major galleries, museums, United States, Europe.
Retrospective exhibition oils, water colors and black and white, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1948, Corpus Christi College Gallery, Brighton Beach, New York City.
Included Metropolitan Museum Water Color Show, 1952-1953, also in the 53 Contemporaries show Greenwich Gallery, New York City, 1957, Armory Show’s 50th Annual, New York City, 1963, art exhibition commemorating Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and founding State of Israel, New York City, 1963. Represented in New York History Society, Philadelphia History Society, Nicholas Gallery, New York City, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, University of Michigan, Norfolk Museum Arts and Sciences, Local 65, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (mural), Chapellier Gallery, Bernhardt Crystal Gallery.
Member art staff New York Call and New York Tribune, 1915. Member Federation Modern Painters and Sculptors, An American Group, Artists Equity Association, Audubon Artists, North Carolina Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professions, New York History Society.
Married Dorothy Baldwin, September 28, 1918.