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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Fred Becker, Composition, 1950

Fred Becker American, 1913-2004

Composition, 1950
watercolor and gouache
image: 16 1/2 x 21 7/8"
sheet: 19 × 25 1/4"
signed and dated recto
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By 1950, Surrealism was becoming passé and Abstract Expressionism was on the rise. Fred Becker had recently begun a 20-year stint at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he...
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By 1950, Surrealism was becoming passé and Abstract Expressionism was on the rise. Fred Becker had recently begun a 20-year stint at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he established an impressive printmaking department. His prints and drawings from this time are bold and energetic and with titles such as, Jam Session II and Auricular Unrest, the relationship of his studio practice to performance and musicianship is clear. In this terrific and dynamic drawing, Becker practically places the viewer on stage with the band. One feels the instruments and the sounds they make have swapped places.

 

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