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 and Treasurer
Martha Hayden (Emerita)
Doria Hughes, Secretary and Archivist
Colleen Randall, Board Member
Catherine Drabkin, Board Member
Staff
Eric Sutphin, Curator
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!["One day [Guston] presented his little daughter to us early Halloween morning before he was to drive her to the school party. The evening before had been riotously spent inventing a witch’s costume consisting of a marvelously illuminated sheet with figures and imagery, a fabulous hat and a carved jack-o-lantern carved in the shape of a cat. I’ve never forgotten the sensuality, the rightness, of that carving. Well, Philip spent a restless day waiting for Ingie to come home from school. She was…a little crestfallen. The boy whose mother had bought a skeleton costume from the five and dime won the prize. No matter. Philip was rehearsing, probably unbeknownst to himself, his future imagery and iconography later to surface in the rich forms we know in his last work." Excerpt of "Letter to L." From "Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter" Image: Philip Guston, Painter's Forms II, 1978, Oil on canvas, 75 x 108 inches #philipguston #halloween #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #woodstock](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/597015ec37c58150516cddef/59776cc5f14aa1a84a5afdd4/59f89832a8ab5a81ed754207/1509464139125/)
![“[Beck’s] massive rhythmic forms and the gouged-out alcoves of her amorous intellectual interiors seemed rich and powerful-rich in associations but powerfully present in themselves. She spoke of wholes against parts, of building and moving as opposed to putting and placing. Hers was an art of continual transition around forms, not across the surface.” Rackstraw Downes on Rosemarie Beck in “What the Sixties Meant to Me” (1973) Image: Rosemarie Beck, “Studio with Lovers,” 1965-66, oil on linen, 50x60 inches. ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #rackstrawdownes #newyorkschool #studio #lovers #painting](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/597015ec37c58150516cddef/59776cc5f14aa1a84a5afdd4/59d44bd0bc3379889cf71cec/1507085271179/)
