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Maria A'Becket (Beckett), painter
CD Clarke, painter
Robert Cook, sculptor
Karen Hubacher, painter
Gerald King, painter
Claudia Minicozzi, painter
Calvin Edward Ramsburg, painter
Richard Schlecht, painter
Gary Shankman, painter
Michael Sheets, painter
Pamela Soldwedel, sculptor
Prentiss Taylor, printmaker & painter
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Maria A'Becket (Beckett)
ARTIST BIO
Born in Portland, Maine on an unknown date, likely in the 1840's, Maria A'Becket was a landscape painter, primarily a watercolorist, influenced by the French Barbizon School. She had early art training with her father, Charles Beckett, a Portland landscape and genre painter who did railroad travel books including ones about the White Mountains. In 1865, she studied with Himer Dode Martin in New Hampshire, and from 1875 to 1878, with William Morris Hunt in Boston. On a trip to France, she spent a summer painting with Charles Daubigny and was much influenced by the Barbizon painters at Pont Aven. During this time, she changed her name to A'Becket, to have a more dramatic name. She also did illustrations for travel guides to the White Mountains, published by her uncle, Samual E. Beckett.
She exhibited at the Boston Art Club in April 1875, at the National Academy of Design in 1883 and 1888. From 1880 to 1884, she exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also exhibited at the Maine Charitable Mechanic Exhibition of 1860 and 1878 and the New York Women's Art Club in 1890.
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