Jack Beal
American, 1931-2013
The Artist and His Wife in an Interior
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Jack Beal
American, 1931-20131964
The Artist and His Wife in an Interior
Jack Beal American, 1931-2013 →charcoaldrawings (visual works)
Date
1964
Medium
Charcoal with smudging on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
35.2 × 42.8 cm (13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Prints and Drawing Purchase Fund
Jack Beal attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the 1950s, when drawing from life was still an important part of the curriculum. Throughout his career he remained dedicated to the realist tradition, even though at the time realism was regularly accused of being old-fashioned and irrelevant. His wife, Sondra Freckelton, had been a fellow SAIC student, and many of Beal’s paintings during the 1960s depict her in various poses. In this drawing he portrayed her reading as he worked.
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