The Structural Rigor of Chris Beekman To look at the work of Chris Beekman is to confront the intersection of political conviction and formal abstraction. He was a Dutch painter and draftsman whose career spanned from 1910 to 1964, a period that demanded a clear stance from any serious practitioner. Beekman did not merely observe the shifting tides of European modernism; he was embedded in the institutional and ideological shifts of h…