Mission

The Rosemarie Beck Foundation is a private, not-for-profit organization that seeks to honor the values, ideals and concrete artistic/pedagogic/literary output of the painter and teacher Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) by allowing for the thoughtful and timely exposure of her work and related aspects of her career. 

The foundation will provide housing, care and exhibition of her oeuvre to assure its most beneficial access to the public.  It shall be an overarching goal of all actions of the Board to use the work wherever possible as a concrete springboard for inspiring serious artists of all ages via technical, financial and other means in the best mentoring-collegial spirit that was Rosemarie Beck's personal and professional legacy.

Rosemarie Beck in her studio at 6 East 12th Street in New York City (1966)

Board of Directors

Roger Phelps, President

Martha Hayden, Vice President

Doria Hughes, Secretary

Roger Phelps, Treasurer

Colleen Randall, Board Member

Catherine Drabkin, Board Member

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We're feeling celebratory about our new website! Visit www.rosemariebeck.org for images, links and information (link in bio) 📸"Untitled", 1981, oil on canvas, 28x32 inches © The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #celebration #painting Rosemarie Beck "Reclining Girl" oil on paper, 16x20 inches, 1967, signed and dated lower right. ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #figure #painting #art "The embroideries are telegraphic mythology...the animation of the surface becomes the engine that gives the work its narrative pace. "Antigone" becomes a story to be embroidered; the tragedy is mirrored, echoed, adumbrated." Jed Perl on Beck's embroideries in 2004. Image: Rosemarie Beck, "Antigone" embroidery on linen, 11x15 inches, mid-1990s. ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #embroidery #antigone #mythology #greek #threadwork #painting #newyorkschool From today's studio visit with painter Dov Talpaz @dovtalpaz who studied with Beck at The New York Studio @ny_studioschool in the early 2000s. Talpaz's work reflects the dynamic interplay of form/material/idea that was central to Beck's teaching #rosemariebeck #dovtalpaz #dialogue #studiovisit #painting "Literature, for me, is important analogically; I'm moved by beautiful making and by structure." Rosemarie Beck "Study for Robert" oil on canvas, 30x25, 1965 ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #figuration #abstraction #painting #newyorkschool #literature "I had intended to go around the wheel of the zodiac, but I got stuck in the House of Venus, that is, the house of making art" Rosemarie Beck to Kim Levin for Arts Magazine (1979). Pictured is a selection of works from the "Houses" series, currently installed at the Beck archives. #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #painting #abstraction #figuration #kimlevin From the archives: a buoyant still life study from 1960. Rosemarie Beck, "Study with Book" oil on paper, 16 x 20 inches (signed lower left) ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #stillife #painting #newyorkschool #gesture #study Rosemarie Beck, "Self Portrait," 1953, oil on canvas, 24x34 inches ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #figure #painting #newyorkschool #selfportrait In 1953, Beck began to paint series based on the "houses" of the horoscope which she titled "House of Mercury,". House of the Sun," "House of Neptune," and "House of the Moon" Eventually, Beck became "stuck in the House of Venus." Here is "House of the Moon I" 1956, 43x53 inches, oil on canvas. This #painting was included in Beck's 1957 show at Peridot Gallery and has since been included in many exhibitions including her first retrospective at #Wesleyan University @wesleyan_u in 1960. Gallery labels and annotations on the verso reveal the work's #provenance. Image: ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #abstractpainting #abstraction #horoscope #moon @baltimoremuseumofart @wustl_official Rosemarie Beck "Landscape" 11x14 inches, oil on canvas, 1978 © The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #landscape #painting #figure #composition A small luscious study from Beck's #Antigone series. "Study" 8.5x11 inches, oil on board, 1990. ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #painting #figure #newyorkschool #antigone #drama #study Rosemarie Beck, "The Sleeper No. 1" 50 1/8 x 69 3/4 in. (127.2 x 177.2 cm), 1959. Oil on canvas. PROVENANCE: Jh Purchased From Peridot Gallery, New York 1960 ©Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1960 #rosemariebeck #figure #painting #contemporaryart #interior #newyorkschool @hirshhorn #rembrandt was born #onthisday in 1606. Beck recalled seeing an image of his #engraving "The Hundred Guilder Print" during an early morning art history lecture at #oberlin in 1941. She was so moved by the image that she decided to leave the conservatory and enroll in the art history department. Beck often referred to #Rembrandt's 1660 self portrait at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as "her lodestar." @metmuseum @oberlincollege Books and still life objects at The Rosemarie Beck Foundation archives. Beck often made maquettes and sculptures to use as she was composing large, complicated figure arrangements. At the left of the image is a plaster horse sculpture which Beck made in preparation for a series of #Pegasus paintings. #rosemariebeck #figure #painting #stillife #newyorkschool Beck worked from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from 1975 until 1980. W.H Auden's "The Sea and the Mirror" informed her thinking about Shakespeare's last play and prompted her to use it as conceptual material. Here is one version of Miranda painted in 1978. Image: Miranda, Act 1, Scene II, 1978 oil on canvas, 14 x 24 inches ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #newyorkschool #rosemariebeck #painting #figure #shakespeare #thetempest #auden Rosemarie Beck in her studio at 6. East 12th Street c. 1966 © The Rosemarie Beck Foundation