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Dan Beck is an award winning
artist with six consecutive Oil Painters of America
awards of excellence (three National & three Regional).
He has also won two consecutive Raymar Art Competition
Awards of Excellence. The Southwest Art November 2008
issue had a feature article "A Painter's Playlist" and
his painting "Waiting" was selected for the cover of
that issue. He has also been featured in "Art of the
West" magazines and "Art Talk". Dan has been invited to
nationally prominent shows such as the annual American
Miniature Show at Settlers West Galleries, Tucson,
Arizona, the annual "Fall Classic" in Hamilton, Montana
and the annual Great American Figurative Artists Show at
Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, California. His
paintings have found collectors in both the private and
corporate world on a national level as well as from such
diverse places as Canada, Japan and the Middle East. He
is in the permanent collection of the Littleton
Historical Museum and has exhibited with the Phippen
Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
Wanderlust was Dan's primary motivation in the decade
following his graduation from high school. Dan took to
the road, working jobs that included ranch hand in
Arizona, construction on the beach of Florida,
refinishing furniture in Louisiana and four years in the
infantry, including a two year tour in Germany. Wherever
he went, Dan filled sketch books and journals for his
own enjoyment. Then in Colorado after a couple of years
in college, he realized the thing that meant most to him
was his sketch books. So he quit his job and college,
sold everything he had and decided that commitment to
one path was where all the previous had led him. Dan has
studied at the Art Student League of Denver, with
numerous contemporary painters and has continuously
studied the impressionist masters.
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