SEASON OF THE ARTS
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Colleen Nash Becht’s meticulously rendered watercolors
splashed with the color and subject matter
of the tropics show the gift and focus of an artist
who has worked a lifetime to hone her work.
But Becht, who just turned 50, will tell you that
it took her longer than most to find her way to painting and
although she knew she had artistic talent, it took more than a
nudge, and many years, to get her going in the right direction.
The fourth in a family of six children, Becht, who is married
to Fort Pierce City Commissioner Eddie Becht, grew up in
Chicago and moved to Fort Pierce with her family in 1976.
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NORMAN ROCKWELL:
Behind the Camera
October13, 2012 – January 13, 2013
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS
OF ADAM STRAUS
September 15, 2012 – January 6, 2013
POP ART REVISITED:
A 21st Century Perspective
September 29, 2012 – January 2, 2013
Robert Rauschenberg, Signs (detail), 1970, color serigraph, 44 5/8 x 35 1/4
inches, Collection of University of South Florida, Museum Purchase
Norman Rockwell, Art Critic, 1955, tearsheet, cover illustration for The Saturday
Evening Post, April 16, 1955, Norman Rockwell Museum Archival Collections.
Adam Straus,The Next to the Last Iceberg, 2006-7, oil on canvas encased in
lead, 29 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 2 inches, Collection of Mrs. Georgia E. Welles
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Becht began painting full time a decade ago. She stands in front of a painting
in her Second Street studio.
Becht’s attention to detail, keen observation and control of her medium and
sense of humor are exemplified in this painting of spiny lobsters, “Eye for
D-tail.”
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