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A catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 12, 2000 - Jan. 14, 2001, and at Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Fla., Mar. 16 - May 26, 2002. "More than fifty works from one of Florida's most important collections of American art will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts from November 12, 2000 - January 14, 2001. Primarily paintings, the works range from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s and encompass traditional and modernist landscapes and still lifes, portraits, and urban realism. "The artists represented in "An American Palette: Works from the Collection of John and Dolores Beck" read like a "who's who" in American art. They include: Albert Bierstadt, George Inness, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Everett Shinn Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Ehpraim Burchfield, Arthur G. Dove, John Marin Reginald Marsh, Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Oscar Bluemner, and Charles Sheeler. Never before has such a large number of works from this collection been shown to the public. The show will also be presented at the Orlando Museum of Art in 2002." (Description from http://www.tfaoi.com)