Still Life Painter

Artist Jack Beal (American, 1931-2013)

Date1978-1979

DimensionsH: 49 3/4 in. (126.3 cm); W: 60 in. (152.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas.

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1979.77

Not on View

Label TextThis picture was painted in response to an invitation by the dealer Allan Frumkin to several artists to paint a large still life for an exhibition to take place in the winter of 1979. Beal said he decided to paint the back of a still life arrangement that had already been set up by his wife, the painter Sondra Freckleton, for the canvas she was painting for the same Frumkin show. Beal added the large begonia plant through which his wife is seen working on her painting.Published References"For the Record," Art Gallery, vol. 23, no. 4, May 1980, p. 38.

Philbrook Art Center (Tulsa, OK) Calendar, October 1980, repr.

"1979 Annual Report," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 21, no. 4, 1979, p. 89, repr.

Strand, Mark, ed., Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters, New York, 1983, repr. (col.), p. 58.

Henry, Gerrit, "Jack Beal: A Commitment to Realism," Art News, vol. 83, no. 10, December 1984, p. 97, repr. (col.) p. 96.

Bro, Lu, Figure and Form: Skills and Expression, Dubuque, 1992, p. 47, fig. 3.16.

Cole, Elizabeth, "Jack Beal: A Celebration of New Realism," School Arts, vol. 92, no. 5, January 1993, pp. 25, 28, repr. (col.) pp. 26-27.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, The Big Still Life, 1979, repr.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Seven on the Figure, 1979, p. 23, repr. (col.) p. 21.

Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, Realism/Photorealism, 1980, repr. (col.) p. 37.

Dayton Art Institute, New Portraits: Behind Faces, 1982, no. 5.

Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Columbus Museum of Art; Purchase, NY, Neuberger Museum; Portland (OR), Art Museum, American Still Life 1945-1983, 1983-1984, p. 44, repr. (col.).