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Lawrence Beck
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Lawrence Beck

Yu'pik: born Seattle, Washington, 1938; died Seattle, Washington, 1994
BiographyLawrence Beck attended the University of Washington, earning a B.A. in painting (with a minor in art history and ceramics) in 1964 and an M.F.A. in sculpture in 1965. He taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene as a Visiting Instructor of Sculpture for the 1966-67 academic year. The years 1967-68 were spent as a visiting Fine Arts Fellow at the University of Southampton, England. Returning to the Northwest, Beck moved to the Skagit Valley.

His work has been featured at the Seattle Art Museum, the UW's Henry Art Gallery, Portland Art Museum and in national tours of native art. He also has had work on display at Highline Community College and at Boeing Field.His masks are in the collections at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian.


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