Artworks by Jack Beal at George Adams Gallery on artnet

Jack Beal

(American, 1931–2013)

Jack Beal

Self-portrait with Rudbeckias and Day Lilies, 1988

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Jack Beal

Table Painting #10, 1969

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Jack Beal

Charles Demill's Rose, 1988

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Jack Beal

Table Painting #5, 1968

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Jack Beal

Gloves, 1968

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Jack Beal

The Return of Spring , 1997

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Biography

Timeline

1931: Born in Richmond, VA
: Lives in Oenata, NY
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: College of William and Mary, Norfolk Division
: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Exhibitions

2012: Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie, and Philip Pearlstein and the Emergence of a New Realism: Paintings and Drawings, 1960 – 1990,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: “Everyday Things: Contemporary Works of Art from the Collection.” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI,
: “Treasures from the Vault,” Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA
2009: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2008: Scrutiny: Artists' Self Portraits, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
2007: Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Sondra Freckelton and Jack Beal: Fifty Years Working Together, Fine Art Gallery, SUNY College at Oneonta, NY (solo)
2003: Multiple Artists, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: The Contemporary Tableau: Beal, Goodman, Leslie, and Witkin, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2002: The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
: Me. Myself & I, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Realism: Paintings by Jack Beal and Philip Pearlstein, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; travels to the Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY (solo)
2001 - 2002: Real (ist) Men, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2001: Jack Beal: The Times Square Subway Mural and Other Works, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Spectrum 2001, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
: 20th Century American Landscapes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
: A Century of American Woodcuts, Jane Haslem Fine Arts, Washington DC
2000 - 2001: The Virginia Landscapes, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
: The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
2000: 2000 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
: Realism Today, John Pence Gallery (through American Artist magazine), San Francisco, CA
1999 - 2000: Mosaico a New York City - The Return of Spring, Galleria d’Arte Moderne di Udine, Udine, Italy (solo)
: Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
: Contemporary American Realist Drawings from the Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
: 25 Works for 25 Years: A Quarter Century of Art at 3M, Concourse Gallery, 3M, St. Paul, MN
: American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999: Art About Art, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
1998 - 2000: Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
1998: Jack Beal: A Survey from 1963-1994, Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta, GA (solo)
: Illumination, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT
: Shattering the Southern Stereotype, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA
: Annual Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1997 - 1998: Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1997: Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
: A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Dramatic Realism: The New Baroque, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
: Jack Beal: Paintings and Works on Paper, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA (solo)
: Jack Beal: A Survey of Prints and Drawings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: It Figures, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
1996: Going Places, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1995: American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: Contemporary Virginia Realism, Second Street Gallery, VA
1994 - 1995: Visiting Artist’s Program, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA (solo)
1994: American Realism & Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
: Around the House, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Jack Beal: Paintings and Drawings, 1963-1993, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1993: Self-Portrait: The Changing Self, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1992: Large Scale Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Contemporary American Realism, Broden Gallery, Madison, WI
1991 - 1992: American Realism and Figurative Art: 1955-1990, Myagi Museum; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; Tokushima Modern Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Shiba, Otsu; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Japan
: Intimate Interiors, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1991: Common Objects, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Images in American Art, 1960-1990, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
: Jack Beal: Focus on Painting, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
: Objects Observed: Contemporary Still-Life, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
1990: Landscape on Paper, Graham Modern, New York, NY
1989: American Figuration: The 1950's and 1960's, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Food for Thought, Lintas: Worldwide at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
: Made In America, Virginia Beach Arts Center, VA
: Realist Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery (Drawing Gallery), New York, NY
: Small Works by Gallery Artists, Frumkin/Adams Gallery (Drawing Gallery), New York, NY
: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
: Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1988: Realism Now, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX
1987 - 1988: Jack Beal: Images On Paper, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, NY (solo)
: Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: Contemporary Still Life, Vault Gallery, The Boston Company, Boston, MA
1987: Frivolity and Mortality: The Tradition of Vanitas In Contemporary Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
: A Feast For the Eyes, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
: Interiors in Paint: Works by Thirty-three Artists, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
: Recent American Portraiture, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
: Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
1985: Drawings, Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
: Contemporary American Still-Life: Works by Forty-six Artists, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1984: New Realism: Behind the Scenes, Small Paintings and Preliminary Sketches, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
: The Artist's Studio in American Painting, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
: Images and Imagery: Works on Paper, Art Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY
: Jack Beal/Joan Brown: The Early Sixties, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1983: New Portraits: Behind Faces, The Dayton Art Institute, OH
: Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism: Works of Art on Paper from the Collection of Jalane and Richard Davidson, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
: New York, New Art: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1982: An Appreciation of Realism, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
: The Human Figure, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
: Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1981: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
: American Figure Painting, 1950-1980, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
: American Drawings in Black and White, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
1980: Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
: The American Landscape: New Developments, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
: A Feast for the Eyes, Heckscher Museum, New York, NY
1979: Artists’ Choice Museum Prospectus and Benefit Exhibition, Artists' Choice Museum, New York, NY
: Pictura Noua in American Deceniului al Optulea, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
: The Big Still-Life, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY; University of Virginia, Richmond, VA; Art Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
1978: An Invitational Drawing Show, The DePauw University Art Center, Greencastle, IN
1977: American Drawing: 1927-1977, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
: Jack Beal: Prints and Related Drawings, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Boston University, Boston, MA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
1976 - 1977: 30 Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
: Artists Choice, Figurative Art in New York, Green Mountain Gallery, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY; Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY; First Street Gallery, New York, NY; SoHo Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY
1976: The Figure in Drawing Now, Bennington College, VT
1975: American Realists: Watercolors and Drawings, Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
: Portrait Painting, 1970 - 1975, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
: New Images: Figuration in American Painting, Queens County Museum, New York, NY
1974: Aspects of the Figure, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1973 - 1974: Jack Beal: Retrospective, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Boston University, Boston, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
1973: Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
: American Drawings 1963 - 1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Richard Brown Baker Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Drawings by Seven American Realists, Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1972: Drawings by Living American Artists, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C
: 70th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL (solo)
1971: American Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: New Realism, State University of New York, Potsdam; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
1970: National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
: 22 Realists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Works On Paper, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA

Public Collections

: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
: Fine Arts Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
: Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, VT
: Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Mt. Holyoke Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit, IRT Mezzanine, New York, NY
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
: Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH
: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Jack Beal

(American, 1931–2013)

Jack Beal

Jack Beal

Jack Beal

Jack Beal

Jack Beal

Jack Beal

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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