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Jack Beal was born on 25 June, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, United States, is an American painter (1931 – 2013). Discover Jack Beal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Realist Painter
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 25 June, 1931
Birthday 25 June
Birthplace Richmond, Virginia, United States
Date of death 29 August, 2013
Died Place Oneonta, New York, United States
Nationality American

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His wife is Sondra Freckelton (m. 1955)

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1930

With their optimistic portrayal of the history of labor in the United States and the theme of the dignity of work, Hilton Kramer declared that "Jack Beal established himself as the most important Social Realist to have emerged in American painting since the 1930s."

Recalling Beal's sense of humor, Sondra Freckelton commented that the dynamic poses of workers, which were inspired by the Old Masters and included an electrician installing cables while leaning backward on a ladder, was certainly "against OSHA regulations."

1931

Walter Henry "Jack" Beal Jr. (June 25, 1931 – August 29, 2013) was an American realist painter.

Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931.

He studied at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary and then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was a student of Kathleen Blackshear.

1936

At the Art Institute of Chicago, he met artist Sondra Freckelton (1936-2019), who he married in 1955.

1957

In 1957, Beal and Freckleton moved to New York City and then in the 1970s to a farm in Oneonta, New York.

1960

Beal achieved recognition in New York City and elsewhere during the 1960s.

His realist paintings were seen in solo exhibitions at the Allen Frumkin Galleries in New York City and Chicago, and dozens of other galleries in New York, Boston, Miami, Paris and elsewhere.

His paintings have been included in important exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among other fine art institutions.

Beal was one of several New York-based painters of the 1960s, including Philip Pearlstein and Alfred Leslie, who rejected Abstract Expressionism and embraced an approach to figurative art that has been termed "New Realism."

Beal "mined a rich vein of representation, which has usually demonstrated a fine sense of observation, an inventive painterliness, an acute responsiveness to shape and pattern, the ability to create dynamic compositional structures, and always the willingness to take artistic risks rather than languish in a single mode of picture making."

The variety of Beal's works included nudes, still-lifes, portraits, landscapes, and allegorical compositions.

In addition to oil paintings, drawings, etchings, and lithographs, Beal also undertook major works of public art.

1974

The US General Service Administration commissioned Beal to create four murals, The History of Labor in America, which he painted between 1974 and 1977 for the new headquarters of the United States Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. It was one of the first such commissions by the federal government since the WPA Federal Art Project (1935-1943).

1976

In 1976, Beal was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1983.

1986

In 1986, the MTA commissioned Beal to produce a mosaic mural for the Times Square-42nd Street Subway Station titled The Return of Spring (2001).

1990

In the 1990s, Beal taught at the New York Academy of Art and Hollins College.

Beal's early work after leaving the Art Institute of Chicago was strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, especially the work of Arshile Gorky, but he quickly grew disillusioned with the movement.

2005

After the positive response to the first mural, the MTA commissioned a second mural facing it, The Onset of Winter (2005).

They present the classical myth of Persephone set against the backdrop of the New York City Subway.

2013

He died in Oneonta in August 2013 at the age of 82.