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SUMMARY:Charles Beck: Artist and Muse Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The Long X Art Gallery is pleased to offer this incredible art exhibit January 12 – March 2\, 2024. Free and open to the public\nMonday – Saturday 10am – 5pm in the Lower Level of the Long X Visitor Center. \n\nCHARLES BECK\n(b. 1923 – d. 2017\, Fergus Falls\, MN)\nCharles Beck was born in 1923 in Fergus Falls. Beck began drawing in grade school where he would trade his\nworks for candy and marbles. He attended Concordia College in Moorhead in the 1940s where he studied art\nunder Cyrus Running\, graduating in 1948 after taking time off to serve as a pilot in the Naval Air Force. Beck\ncontinued his education at the University of Iowa where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1950 and\nthen returned to Fergus Falls where he worked as a sign painter.\nIn 1953 Beck enrolled at the University of Minnesota where he studied under Cameron Booth\, Walter Quirt\,\nand Malcolm Myers. It was here that Beck was first introduced to woodcut prints\, and he completed his first\nprint The Holy Family. Beck joined the faculty at Fergus Falls Community College (now Minnesota State\nCommunity and Technical College or M State) in 1960 where he taught for 27 years. Concordia granted Beck an\nHonorary Doctorate in 1980\, and in 2006 M State honored Beck by naming the new gallery after him.\nThroughout his life\, Beck’s primary subject was the landscape and nature of Otter Tail County. Instead of an\nexact representation\, he worked to create an interpretation of his own experiences and vision. \n\n\nTHE COLLECTION\nPoet Timothy Murphy was an admirer and friend of Beck and derived both enjoyment and inspiration from his\nfriend’s artwork. Murphy’s poem Snowgeese references and gives direct attribution to Beck’s iconic landscape of\nthe same name:\nSnowgeese\nfor Charles Beck\nThe flock is whorled like a translucent shell\nand intricate as the tubing of a horn\,\nits embouchure\, the soft foot of a snail\nlighting on sand\, except the sand is corn\,\nchisel sloughed and left to build the soil\nfrom which indebted farmers have been torn.\nI catch one note—a wild\, wayfaring cry\nas snow geese splash into a glacial mere.\nFramed by moraines under a nacreous sky\,\nthey echo in the chambers of my ear.\nHow does an ear rival your artist’s eye\nthat sees what I can only hope to hear?\nReproduced images of Beck woodcuts are also featured in most of Murphy’s published collections of poetry. The\nTimothy Murphy Collection includes twenty-four Beck woodcuts and will remain on semi-permanent loan to\nThe Rourke Art Gallery + Museum.
URL:https://longxarts.com/event/charles-beck-artist-and-muse-art-exhibition/
LOCATION:Long X Arts Foundation Gallery\, 100 2nd Ave SW\, Watford City\, ND\, 58854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Class,Events,Gallery Show,In-Person
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