Margit Beck Schwartz (1918–1997) was a Hungarian-born painter who lived and worked in the United States. She was born Margit Beck in Tokay, Hungary. She studied first at the Institute of Fine Arts in

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, Romania and then at the

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. Her work is included in the

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. Her papers, c.1950–1970, which give her year of birth as 1915, are held by the Smithsonian.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beck, Margit Hungarian women artists 1918 births 1997 deaths Hungarian emigrants to the United States