Margit Beck

Margit Beck Schwartz (1918–1997) was a Hungarian-born painter who lived and worked in the United States.[1][2][3]

She was born Margit Beck in Tokay, Hungary. She studied first at the Institute of Fine Arts in Oradea, Romania and then at the Art Students League of New York.[4][5]

Her work is included in the Whitney Museum of American Art.[6] Her papers, c.1950–1970, which give her year of birth as 1915, are held by the Smithsonian.[7]

  1. ^ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ^ New York Media, LLC (1 February 1971). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 57–. ISSN 0028-7369.
  3. ^ ARTnews. ARTnews Associates. 1972.
  4. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths SCHWARTZ, MARGIT BECK (Published 1997)". The New York Times. 17 March 1997.
  5. ^ Heller, Jules (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century : a Biographical Dictionary. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781135638894. OCLC 866858199.
  6. ^ "Margit Beck". www.whitney.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  7. ^ "Margit Beck papers, ca.1950-1970". www.aaa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-10.