Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Becker, Maurice, 1889-1975
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content: Maurice Becker papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.1 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-3, 10, 12, OV 6-8, 13-20)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1910-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beckmaur, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Materials are arranged by document type.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Artwork includes paintings, over 1500 graphite and pen and ink sketches, watercolors, and prints depicting Becker's figure drawings, caricatures, portrait drawings of men and women, and sketches of animals and landscapes.  Many of these sketches were the basis for panels that later appeared in the New York Tribune, The Masses, and Liberator.  Labor leaders, politicians, and artists identified in these sketches include Mother Jones, Samuel Gompers, Herbert Hoover, William Glackens, and Max Eastman.