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Arthur Ernst Becher

Arthur Ernst Becher (1877 - 1960) was active/lived in New York, Wisconsin / Germany.  Arthur Becher is known for Magazine illustration, history, and landscape painting.

Arthur Ernst Becher (Beecher), 1877-1960, was an illustrator of books and magazines and fine-art painter known for rural New York landscapes and historical scenes including Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. His specialty was horses.

He was born in Freiburg, Germany and trained in Munich and with Howard Pyle at the Brandywine School. In 1959, six of his early paintings were purchased by the Common Council of Milwaukee where Becher migrated with his parents at age eight.

He took early training from Frederick William Heine and Robert Schade, and also painted at Jones Island, a fishing village near Milwaukee. In 1902, he became a student of illustrator Howard Pyle at Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania.  Two years later he married Frieda Knappe from Milwaukee, and the couple settled in Ardsley, New York. In 1917, they added a 125 acre farm in Putnam County, New York.

Becher became a magazine illustrator whose clients included Scribner's, Leslie's, and Appleton's   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1978 characters.]  Artist bio

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