Robert Beckman<

Robert Beckmann is a prolific studio artist and muralist; more than two hundred of his murals exist throughout the country, and his paintings are in many public and private collections. He has received fellowships from the Nevada State Art Council and the Western States Arts Foundation, and received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the State of Nevada in 1996.

The cover image comes from his series of large-scale paintings entitled The Body of a House, which has toured to twenty museums in the United States and St. Petersburg, Russia, and is permanently housed in the Nevada Museum of Art. Beckmann is also noted for a series of murals that hang in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.