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Name	Beck, Margit
Other names	Margit Beck Schwartz
Dates & places of birth and death	b. Tokaj, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Hungary, 1911 d. Great Neck, New York, 1997
Education	Institute of Fine Arts, Oradea, Romania Art Students League, New York City, 1934-1936
Occupation	Part of the Whitney Annual/Biennial in 1956, 1960 and 1961
Relationships	Sydney Schwartz, husband
Places of residence	Oradea, Romania New York City Great Neck, New York
Role	Artist
Notes	Visit the artist's Wikipedia entry Coming to the United States in the 1930s she studied at The Art Students League in New York. During the 1940s, Miss Beck's style as a cubist took form making use of angular patterns while using the most striking contrasts, by applying paint with the palette knife while using brilliant bursts of color amid prisms of light. Her early work utilized highly stylized figures in abstract form.

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