Charles Keck (1913-2003) Charles Keck was born in Iowa in 1913. He moved to Los Angeles in 1920, where he graduated from Fairfax High. From 1932 to 1934, he majored in art at Los Angeles City College, and was awarded a three year scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute where he studied with Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, and Phil Paradise from 1935-38. In the late ‘30s through the early ‘40s he worked for Columbia Pictures as a background artist until being drafted to serve in WWII. While serving in the Signal Corps, he was stationed in Alaska where he produced a series of watercolors depicting A...