“The pursuit of light is a lost cause today. It’s my pursuit nonetheless," Rosemarie Beck ’44 said in 1971. Beck graduated from Oberlin with a degree in art history, and quickly showed promise within the New York art scene in the 1940s and 1950s for her abstract paintings. However, just as she was beginning to rise to prominence, she abandoned this art style for another that called to her more: figuration. Her paintings and embroideries have a focus on mythological and literary themes, and are filled with rebellious women. Despite the talent and passion apparent in her art, she was little known at the time of her death in 2003. However, posthumously, her time has come—her work is featured in the exhibit "Earthly Paradise" at the @vandorenwaxter in New York. Read more about Beck in the @artnet article at the link in our bio. This exhibit will be on view until the end of the month. 📸: Rosemarie Beck, Concert in Tuscany (circa 1989). Courtesy Van Doren Waxter.