Dorothy & I on Park Hill, Tioga

Dorothy & I on Park Hill, Tioga
Maurice Becker
1889 - August 28, 1975
Artist Biography
Acquisition Number: 2018.23
Medium: Oil on Masonite board
Size: 9 1/4 x 12 in.
Date: 1928
Credit: Gift of Rodney Ray Carleton

The artist, Maurice Becker, and his wife Dorothy are depicted in this painting riding horses along Park Hill Road in Pennsylvania. After Becker's release from prison, he lived in Pennsylvania for some time. This painting was a gift to his neighbor, who was a young child at the time, in exchange for cutting Becker's grass. The neighbor described Maurice and Dorothy as eccentric people who sometimes wandered their property in the nude.