VINTAGE 1991 H D BECKER ORIGINAL "SWEET BOY" PORTRAIT WATER COLOR PAINTING SIGNED

We purchased 3 pieces of art from a local Estate sale near Honesdale Pennsylvania. 

LOOK CLOSELY AT EACH OF THE SIDES OF HIS FACE AS I FIRST THOUGHT THIS WAS LONG BROWN HAIR. THIS IS A GREAT ILLUSION AS IT'S JUST A BACKGROUND AND NOT HIS HAIR.

MEASURES 9" x 12" 

HOWARD DANIEL BECKER

SIGNED 

1991

watercolor 

Howard Daniel Becker (American, 1914-1995) was born 1914 in Albany, NY graduated at Pratt Institute of Art in 1935, Brooklyn, NY.  Since 1941 to 1945 armed with a paintbrush and pencil, he traveled with the U.S. Army to North Africa, Italy and France, producing hundreds of water color sketches of U.S. Army forces, war damage and civilian life.  He won several Army art contests, and also found favor with Colonel R. Hunter Clarcson, who rewarded him with a week in Paris, to paint.  Returning home he left for the South West, living at the Taos art colony and in Santa Fe, traveling to Arizona and California, where he spent almost nine years, painting and holding exhibits.