Background
Beck, Walter was born on March 11, 1864 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Louise (Schnicke) Beck.
Beck, Walter was born on March 11, 1864 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles and Louise (Schnicke) Beck.
Studied art Royal Academy Fine Arts, Munich.
Teacher Cincinnati Academy Fine Arts, Rockwood Pottery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Lecturer pictorial composition. Winner national competition in designs for mural decoration of vestibule of City Hall, Cincinnati, 1897.
Twenty of series, The Life of Christ, are owned by Art Museum of Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, 2 owned by National Gallery, Washington, and 1 each in the Montclair and the Newark (New Jersey) art muses.
80 portraits, of Civil War veterans, grouped about Grant’s Tomb on 50th anniversary of Gettysburg, pictures owned by National Gallery, Washington. Exhibited “tempera paintings” at Saint Mark’s Hall, New York City, 1921, Rome, 1924, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, 1925, Gallerie Tallyrand, Paris, 1927.
Retrospective exhibition pastel and tempera paintings at Dayton The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933. With Mistress Beck designer of the “Garden of the Seven Gates,” at Innisfree, Millbrook, New York, 1929-1935.
Portrait of John Burroughs, National Gallery, Washington.
“Temperamental” Phillips Art Gallery, Washington.
Member National Arts Club. Member Architectural League, Arts Club (Washington).
Married Caroline Peabody Perkins, September 3, 1895 (deceased). Married second, Marion Burt-Stone, August 1922.