GOTHDIGA, PUEBLO INDIAN GIRL.
Becker, Frederick "Fred" William:
[Probably painted in New Mexico. ca. 1920s]. Oil on canvas panel, 16 x 11 3/4 inches. Titled on exhibition label, reverse. Signed upper left in block letters: "Frederick Becker." Excellent condition. Framed. A colorful bust profile portrait of a Pueblo Indian girl, her costume, blue headband with one feather, red necklace, lipstick, and short "Eaton" hairstyle, suggesting a Jazz Age flapper. Born in Vermillion, South Dakota Territory, Becker (1888- 1974) was a well traveled professional artist whose principal works concerned Indians and landscapes in the American West. He was one of the earliest members of the Taos art colony. Becker attended the Los Angeles School of Art & Design, Art Students League of Los Angeles, Mackey School of Art (San Francisco), Berkeley School of Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He studied with the impressionists Daniel Garber, Hugh Brackenridge, Robert Reid, and Emil Carlsen. Becker, an active member of the Southern States Art League and the Oklahoma Art Association, once headed the Fine Arts Department at the University of Oklahoma City. Becker was elected as the first president of the Society of Texas Artists. A prize winner at the Kansas City Art Institute in the early Thirties, and an exhibitor at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1938), Becker left a large body of work, including a mural of War Chief Posay at the Oklahoma Historical Building. His pictures are in the permanent collections of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Museum of Art - University of Oklahoma, Sangre De Cristo Arts Center (Pueblo, Colorado), and the Grace Museum (Abilene, Texas). www.askart.com (citing magazine article, "Treasury of Living Art," Desert Art Center, Palm Springs, Ca., 1970). WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART I, p.257. Peggy & Harold Samuels, ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976), p.33.
(Item ID: WRCAM37468) $4,500.00