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Jack Beal
Twentieth Century Lithographer
American, b. 1931
From the Archives of AskArt:
An abstract expressionist and figurative painter, Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931. As a young child he was often ill with ear infections and to take his mind off the pain his mother encouraged him to draw. Although his drawing talent set him apart from his peers, Beal might never have become an artist if a professor at the College of William and Mary had not changed his life by telling him to leave school and go to The Art Institute of Chicago. Beal followed this advice, studying for three years at The School of the Art Institute, where he learned to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style.
Eventually Beal began to move toward figuration in his work and is now considered "a realist's realist." "The trouble is," he says, "I have never been able to achieve the level of naturalism I would like."
His heroes in the realm of realism are the 17th-century Dutch painters. "They seem to have painted just as naturally as we eat or drink. There is a quality of believability in those paintings." Beal also greatly admires Renaissance art.
Beal taught at Cooper Union for a semester and quit. He also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, but he disliked both experiences. He and his wife have, in a sense, opened an art institute of their own. They have no children but "plenty of surrogate sons and daughters" in the promising young realist artists they take in and teach, both at their New York studio and at their upstate farm in Oneonta, New York.
Sources include:
Web-site of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Gerrit Henry in Art News, December 1984.
Additional information provided by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Twentieth Century Lithographer
American, b. 1931
From the Archives of AskArt:
An abstract expressionist and figurative painter, Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931. As a young child he was often ill with ear infections and to take his mind off the pain his mother encouraged him to draw. Although his drawing talent set him apart from his peers, Beal might never have become an artist if a professor at the College of William and Mary had not changed his life by telling him to leave school and go to The Art Institute of Chicago. Beal followed this advice, studying for three years at The School of the Art Institute, where he learned to paint in the Abstract Expressionist style.
Eventually Beal began to move toward figuration in his work and is now considered "a realist's realist." "The trouble is," he says, "I have never been able to achieve the level of naturalism I would like."
His heroes in the realm of realism are the 17th-century Dutch painters. "They seem to have painted just as naturally as we eat or drink. There is a quality of believability in those paintings." Beal also greatly admires Renaissance art.
Beal taught at Cooper Union for a semester and quit. He also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, but he disliked both experiences. He and his wife have, in a sense, opened an art institute of their own. They have no children but "plenty of surrogate sons and daughters" in the promising young realist artists they take in and teach, both at their New York studio and at their upstate farm in Oneonta, New York.
Sources include:
Web-site of Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Gerrit Henry in Art News, December 1984.
Additional information provided by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
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