About the Rosemarie Beck Foundation — The Rosemarie Beck Foundation

Mission

The Rosemarie Beck Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that seeks to honor the values and artistic-pedagogic-literary output of the artist and teacher Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) by encouraging the thoughtful and timely promulgation of her work and writings.

The foundation provides housing, care and exhibition of Beck’s oeuvre to assure its most beneficial access to the public. Our goal is to use her work to inspire serious artists and scholars in the mentoring and collegial spirit that is 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

Colleen Randall, Board Member

Catherine Drabkin, Board Member

Shiao-Ping Wang, Board Member

Dov Talpaz, Board Member

Georgia McGovern, Board Member

Managing Director

Doria Hughes, Collection Manager & Archivist

Advisory Board

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On Thursday, March 29 at School of Visual Arts @degreecritical Eric Sutphin and Rackstraw Downes will be in conversation on the occasion of the publication of Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter and Other Writings (Soberscove Press, Chicago).(

#regram @soberscove “Rosemarie Beck: Letters to a Young Painter and Other Writings” was published today! Available through Soberscove Press . ******************************* In the writings gathered here, Beck approaches her subjects in t

In honor of International Women’s Day is Beck’s “Studio with Magdalen,” a celebration of femininity, art and the creative life. 1964, oil on linen, 52x70 inches #rosemariebeck #internationalwomensday #painting #women #studio

“The eternal legends are still in us from Oedipus to Orpheus to the Cross. These are not factual or anecdotal incidents but unconscious forces, the perennial undercurrents of existence. They have to do with self and the other, with loss and rec

Admirers at the reception of Refigured: Glass. Paper. Thread. at the Hudson Guild. On view through Feb 22 / 441 W.26th Street NY, NY 10001 #rosemariebeck #kenkewley and #joliestahl @jolie_stahl

Five of Beck’s embroideries from the 1980s and 90s are currently on view in #Chelsea in “Refigured: Glass, Paper, Thread” with Ken Kewley and Jolie Stahl @jolie_stahl at The Hudson Guild / Reception Saturday, January 13th, 3-5pm / 4

A selection of Beck’s embroideries will be on view as part of “Refigured: Glass, Paper, Thread” at The Hudson Guild Gallery / January 11-February 22, 2018 / Reception on Saturday, January 13 3-5pm. 441 w. 26th Street, NY, NY, 10001.

Rosemarie Beck, “Concert in Tuscany,” 1997, oil on linen, 34x26 inches. ©️The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #figurative #painting #concert #tuscany

“Beck made paintings about human desire and jealousy, and she deliberately left forms open, with those woven, hatched marks. By not closing lines, she keeps herself, and us, in a state of partial exile, a tantalizing state of longing, not posse

This luscious #embroidery combines music, literature, mythology, light, color and rhythm into an Edenic tableau in which angels perform a concerto while cherubim preside. Rosemarie Beck, “Paradise,” embroidery thread on linen, 16x20 inche

A collector and friend of Beck’s recently bequeathed a selection of work to the foundation. The family had a home in Martha’s Vineyard and Beck would often paint them reading, on the beach or sitting in their garden. We are grateful to th

“When a painter paints, he performs an act of faith. The mark of the artist is his fearlessness before the unknown. Above talent, luck, perseverance; courage counts most of all.” From Beck’s teaching statement circa 1980. Image: Ros

Rosemarie Beck at the window. Photograph by Robert Phelps. Woodstock, NY, winter 1948. #rosemariebeck #woodstock #photography #robertphelps

“Beck's determination to keep "everything moving to and through everything" enabled her to orchestrate large and spatially complex compositions while keeping a vitality of stroke and play of light rippling over the entire surface. In

"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 s

“Essentially the Orpheus myth is about VOCATION, the dedicated life. Orpheus is a gifted creature whose talent is so sovereign, innocent, direct, the beasts, even the rocks, are persuaded by his voice.” From Rosemarie Beck’s essay

“[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 movin

Congratulations to Ro Lohin @rolohin and all those involved in organizing a wonderful centennial exhibition of Nicolas Carone’s work at The New York Studio School. “Nicolas Carone: The Thing Unseen” on view through October 15 @ny_s

Rosemarie Beck, “Lovers,” 1969, oil on linen, 20x26 inches ©The Rosemarie Beck Foundation #rosemariebeck #newyorkschool #figuration #lovers #figurative #painting

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