Robert Beck

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Beck
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 17, 1950(1950-10-17)
Age	74
Birthplace	Teaneck
Country	United States
Horoscope	Libra

Robert Beck Biography

Robert Beck is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on October 17, 1950 in Teaneck, United States. Robert Beck, born 1950, is an American painter best known for his studio and plein air images of people, occupations, events, and places. Beck’s work covers a broad range of subjects, and he often paints live in distracting or difficult situations. Beck addresses larger issues through multiple-painting essays, in which each image explains a different aspect of the subject. Beck is also a teacher, writer, curator, lecturer, and a former host of a weekly radio interview on WDVR FM. He was presented with the Philadelphia Sketch Club Medal of Excellence and Contribution for the Arts in 2014.

His paintings were included in invitational shows at the Museum of the Shenandoah Val (Second Time Around 2014), the James A. Michener Museum, (Local Mill Makes Good 2014; Art and the River 2008), New Hope Arts, (Continuum 2012), the Gratz Gallery, London (American Artists 2006), the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, (Now & Then 2010), The Phillips Mill 75th anniversary retrospective (2004), and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1997

Beck’s paintings have been the subject of in-depth museum exhibitions at the James A. Michener Art Museum (Bucks County Painters, 1999) and the City of Trenton Museum at Ellarslie (Love’s Notions and Novelties, 2007). His exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum Robert Beck: Over East, an Artist’s Journal] ran from 17 September 2016 to January 22, 2017) and the accompanying catalog features his essays, or ‘word paintings’ as well as his oil paintings which, according to Amy Lent, the Museum’s executive director, have captured the soul of the life there.

Beck’s work has been presented in 30 solo gallery exhibitions, including the National Arts Club, NY (Iconic Manhattan, 2012), the Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia (Philadelphia Heartbeat, 2011), the Morpeth Gallery, Pennington and Hopewell, NJ (1997–99); also in solo and joint exhibitions at the Gallery of Robert Beck (2000-).

Beck was interviewed for the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley video, Second Time Around (2014. Larry Carroll for MSV). He also appeared in the James A. Michener Museum video, Local Mill Makes Good (2014). Beck is the subject of the Maine Maritime Museum video made by Bob Krist, for the exhibition Robert Beck, Over East. This video won a silver award from NATJA’s 2016 Travel Broadcast – Video category.

Robert Beck Net Worth

Robert Beck is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Beck 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Since 2005, Beck has been a columnist at ICON magazine. His essays focus on his life as an artist and describe the environment, techniques, and issues involved with creating images. They also address issues surrounding his subject. His essay Over There addresses his own struggles of painting in third-world countries, as well the challenges faced by the surgeons with whom he was traveling and the Senegalese people who were his subjects.

Beck is well-known for his series paintings, which are multiple images that address different aspects of the same subject. These “visual essays” are work that Beck created while on the Mississippi River pushing barges and surrounded by a symphony orchestra performing with a racing team in Europe. He also traveled with Senegalese surgeons. His largest body of work, Over East, is his most focused, depicting Maine’s maritime community. He has been compared to Winslow Homer, who is known for traditional genre painting.

Twelve of Beck’s ICON essays were modified to form the text of the companion piece to his exhibition at the Maine Maritime Museum, Robert Beck: Over East, a book of his painting and writing that documents life in fishing villages on the Maine coast (2016).

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Facts & Trivia

Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Beck celebrates birthday on October 17 of every year.

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Personal life. After his release from prison in 1961, Beck met Betty Shue, who became his common-law wife and the mother of his three daughters (Melody, Misty and Camille) and one son (Leon) while he was working as an insecticide salesman.

What is Robert Beck doing now?

In 2021, he began appearing in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Fergus Collins.

What is Iceberg Slim real name?

Iceberg Slim, whose legal name was Robert Beck , burst on to the scene nearly half a century ago, with his memoir “Pimp: The Story of My Life” (1967), followed immediately by the novel “Trick Baby” (1967), which was adapted for the screen by Universal Pictures.

Who is Robert Beck the actor?

Robert Beck (born 1st August 1968) is an English actor who played Gavin Ferris from May to December 1999. His other credits include Brookside, The Bill, Waterloo Road, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Casualty and Doctors.

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For example, some pimps have been known to employ a “pimp stick”, which is two coat hangers wrapped together, in order to subdue unruly prostitutes. A variation is a “pimp cane”, used for similar purposes. Although prostitutes can move between pimps, this movement sometimes leads to violence.