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$1,400
Dimensions
26.000 x 20.750 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Maurice Becker
Medium
Mixed Media - Limited Edition Lithograph On Paper 145/200
Description
Maurice Becker, painter, political cartoonist and social reformer, was born in 1889 either in Gorky or Niznij Novgorod, in Russia. His family came to the United States in 1892, to New York City. After high school, Becker worked in a clothing factory. He studied with Ash Can School artist Robert Henri in 1908, and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory Show in New York City when he was only twenty-four years of age.
At the Armory show, Becker showed a drawing of a dog's head, sketched in charcoal on a sheet of newspaper. But he became known for black and white drawings expressing his intense feelings about what he saw as injustices in America, and with the advent of World War I, his strong anti-war position. These drawings appeared in left-wing publications like The Daily Worker, The Masses, Liberator, and New Solidarity.
Becker knew artist John Sloan, who was editor of The Masses, so Sloan published drawings such as Becker's Ammunition in the June 1914 issue depicting human beings being shot from cannons. His drawing of a wounded soldier in bed being told by a nurse, "Don't be discouraged. The doctor says you'll be back on the firing line in a week," appeared in The Masses in December 1914. This is a limited edition signed and numbered lithograph. Signed on the lower right and numbered 145/200 on the lower left. Recently re-framed and matted in a black contemporary frame measuring 22" x 30". For more information or to arrange an in person viewing call Richard Beau Lieu at 561-736-8181 or email: beaulieustudios@aol.com
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