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Oglethorpe University Museum of Art to Exhibit
Paintings of Jack Beal
Atlanta - Oglethorpe University Museum (OUM) announces
the exhibition "Jack Beal: A Survey from 1963 to 1994" featuring 13
works of American realist painter Jack Beal. The exhibition will run
from October 11 through December 20, 1998.
Jack Beal is one of a group of artists who, coming out of the
abstract expressionist movement, sought to re-introduce realism into
the vocabulary of 20th century contemporary art. This group includes
Phillip Pearlstein, James Valerio and Alfred Leslie.
Born June 25, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, Jack Beal was educated
in the public schools and then at the Norfolk Division of the
College of William & Mary, now Old Dominion University. He later
studied with Isobel Steele MacKinnon and Kathleen Blackshear at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and took supplementary
courses at the University of Chicago where he studied with Paul
Carroll. Beal married Sondra Freckleton September 3, 1955 and moved
to New York City in 1956. In 1965, Beal presented the first
one-person exhibition at the Allan Frumkin Gallery in New York. In
1973 and 1981, Beal presented one-person exhibitions at the Galerie
Claude Bernard in Paris.
In 1974, Beal was commissioned to make four murals for the new
U.S. Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C. The completed
murals were installed in 1977. Other commissions include a portrait
for Washington & Lee University’s law school and a mural
commissioned by Times Square Subway Improvement Corporation for the
Times Square subway station. The finished designs and drawings for
the subway station are currently at the mosaicists in Italy.
Beal’s works are found in public collections throughout the
United States including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of
Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum
of American Art.
Founded as Oglethorpe University Art Gallery in 1984 and expanded
in 1993, Oglethorpe University Museum is a nonprofit university
museum whose mission is to bring meaningful culture to Atlanta
through the exhibition of art that is international,
representational, often figurative and spiritual.
Comprised of two spacious galleries, and occupying some 7,000
square feet on the third floor of Lowry Hall and Philip Weltner
Library of Oglethorpe University, OUM offers an attractive and
pleasant environment for the viewing of elegantly curated exhibits.
Oglethorpe University Museum is easily accessible, offers ample
free parking and admits visitors without charge. The Museum Gift
Shop offers gifts for every occasion.
For further information about OUM events or to schedule a docent
tour, call (404) 364-8555.
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