Local artist Jerry Becker is shown completing a painting on October 2, 1968, at the Lakewood Art Center, 8805 Bridgeport Way S.W. Mr. Becker, who resided in Puyallup, was listed as the owner of the art center in the 1969 Tacoma Suburban Directory. He was a prolific painter who exhibited extensively through the Pacific Northwest including shows at the Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum (Seattle), Tacoma Art Museum, Olympia Art Museum, Washington State Historical Museum, and the Tacoma Public Library. Mr. Becker had just concluded a one-man show in Seattle at the National Gallery of the Bon Marche where 15 large works of watercolors, collages and oil and 50 miniature watercolors were on display. Jerry Becker moved to Tucson in 1970 but returned to teach watercolor workshops for several summers. Photograph ordered by Jerry Becker. (TNT 7-30-67-article; TNT 8-18-68-article)

Becker, Jerry; Artists--Lakewood; Painting--Lakewood;