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| BORN:
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| Richmond, Virginia 1931
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| LIVES:
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| Oneonta, New York
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| EDUCATION:
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| College of William and Mary, Norfolk Division.
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| Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
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| University of Chicago, Illinois.
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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| "Sondra Freckelton and Jack Beal: Fifty Years Working Together." Fine Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, New York, 2006.*
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| "Abstract Expressionism and the New American Realism: Paintings by Jack Beal and Philip Pearlstein." The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, 2001. Traveled to the Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1/2002.*
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| "Jack Beal: The Times Square Subway Mural and Other Works." George Adams Gallery, New York, September 2001.
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| “Mosaico a New York City—“The Return of Spring.” Galleria d’Arte Moderne di Udine, Udine, Italy, 1999-2000. (To be installed in Times Square subway station.)
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| “Jack Beal: A Survey from 1963-1994.” Oglethorpe University Museum, Atlanta, 1998.*
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| “Jack Beal: A Survey of Prints and Drawings.” George Adams Gallery, New York, 1996.
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| “Jack Beal: Paintings and Works on Paper.” Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 1996.
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| “Visiting Artist’s Program.” Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, 1994-95.*
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| “Jack Beal: Paintings and Drawings, 1963-1993.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, 1993.
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| “Jack Beal: Focus on Painting.” The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, 1990.
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| Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, 1988.
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| “Jack Beal: Images On Paper.” Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York, 1987 -88.*
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| “Jack Beal/Joan Brown: The Early Sixties.” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, 1984.*
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| Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, 1980.
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| “Jack Beal: Prints and Related Drawings.” Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; Boston University, Massachusetts; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1977.*
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| "Jack Beal: Retrospective." Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Boston University, Massachusetts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1973-74.*
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| Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France, 1973*, 1981.
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| Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, 1972.
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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| “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, 2012.
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| “Everyday Things: Contemporary Works of Art from the Collection.” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2012.
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| “Treasures from the Vault,” Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA 2012.
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| “Summer Group Show." George Adams Gallery, New York, 2009.
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| "Scrutiny: Artists' Self Portraits," Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, 2008.
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| "Inside/Outside," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2007.
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| "Group Show." George Adams Gallery, New York, 2006.
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| “Multiple Artists.” George Adams Gallery, New York, 2003.
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| "The Contemporary Tableau: Beal, Goodman, Leslie, and Witkin." Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, 2003.*
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| "The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary Figurative Drawing." Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, June 29-Septeber 22, 2002.*
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| "Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art." New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 2002.
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| "Me. Myself & I." George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2002.
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| "Real (ist) Men." Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. 2001-2002.
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| "Spectrum 2001." Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, 2001
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| "20th Century American Landscapes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art." New York State Museum, Albany, NY, 2001.
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| "A Century of American Woodcuts." Jane Haslem Fine Arts, Washington DC, 2001.
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| "The Virginia Landscapes." Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 2000-2001.
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| "The Figure: Another Side of Modernism." Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000-2001.
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| "2000 Collector's Show." Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2000.
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| "The Art of Collecting." Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan, 2000.
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| "Realism Today." John Pence Gallery (through American Artist magazine), San Francisco, 2000.
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| “Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition.” The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; the Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, 1999-2000.*
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| “25 Works for 25 Years: A Quarter Century of Art at 3M.” Concourse Gallery, 3M, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1999.
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| “Contemporary American Realist Drawings from the Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection.” The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1999.*
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| “American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate.” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1999.
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| “Art About Art.” George Adams Gallery, New York, 1999.
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| “Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection.” The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, West Virginia; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, 1998-2000.*
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| “Illumination.” George Adams Gallery, New York, 1998.
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| “Extensions: Aspects of the Figure.” Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut, 1998.
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| “Annual Collector’s Show.” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1998.
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| “Shattering the Southern Stereotype.” Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, Virginia, 1998.
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| “1997 Collector’s Show.” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1997-98.
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| “Dramatic Realism: The New Baroque.” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania, 1997.*
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| “A Show of Hands.” George Adams Gallery, New York City, 1997.
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| “Mixing Business with Pleasure.” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1997.
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| “1996 Collector’s Show.” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1996.
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| “It Figures.” SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1996.
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| “Going Places.” George Adams Gallery, New York, Summer Group Show, 1996.
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| “Health, Happiness, and Wholeness in Twentieth Century Art.” New York Academy of Sciences, New York City; University Art Museum, SUNY. Binghamton, New York, 1996.*
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| “Meysa McMein Purchase Awards.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996.
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| “American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1995, 1996.
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| “Contemporary Virginia Realism.” Second Street Gallery, Virginia, 1995.*
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| “American Realism & Figurative Painting.” Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, 1994.*
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| “Around the House.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, 1994.
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| “Self-Portrait: The Changing Self.” New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey, 1993.
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| “Large Scale Drawings.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, 1992.
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| “New American Figure Painting.” Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, 1992.
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| “40th Anniversary Exhibition.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, 1992.*
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| “Contemporary American Realism.” Broden Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, 1992.
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| “I, Myself & Me: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Self Portraits.” Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, 1992.
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| “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, 1991-1992.
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| “Common Objects.” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1991.
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| “Images in American Art, 1960-1990.” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania, 1991.
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| “Intimate Interiors.” First Street Gallery, New York, 1991.
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| “Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture.” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 1991.
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| “20th Century Flower Painting.” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, 1991.
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| “Landscape on Paper.” Graham Modern, New York, 1990.
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| “Objects Observed: Contemporary Still-Life.” Gallery Henoch, New York, 1990.
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| “American Figuration: The 1950's and 1960's.” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 1989.
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| “Food for Thought.” Lintas: Worldwide at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York , 1989.
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| “Made In America.” Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia, 1989.
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| “Realist Drawings.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery (Drawing Gallery), New York, 1989.
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| “Portraits and Self-Portraits.” Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, 1989.
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| “Small Works by Gallery Artists.” Frumkin/Adams Gallery (Drawing Gallery), New York, 1989.
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| “The Figure.” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1989.*
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| “Realism Now.” Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, 1988.
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| “Contemporary Interpretive Landscape.” Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, 1988.*
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| “Looking Ahead.” University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1987-88.
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| “Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection.” National Academy of Design, New York, 1987-88.*
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| “Contemporary Still Life.” Vault Gallery, The Boston Company, Boston, 1987-88.
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| “Frivolity and Mortality: The Tradition of Vanitas In Contemporary Painting.” Sherry French Gallery, New York, 1987.
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| “Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape.” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1986.
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| “A Feast For the Eyes.” Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1986.
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| “Accurate Depictions? Figurative Realist Paintings.” Art Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 1986.*
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| “20th Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context.” International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1986.*
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| “Interiors in Paint: Works by Thirty-three Artists.” One Penn Plaza, New York, 1986.
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| “American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors in the Glenn C. Janss Collection.” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, 1985-86.*
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| “Drawings.” Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, 1985.
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| “Contemporary American Still-Life: Works by Forty-six Artists.” One Penn Plaza, New York, 1985.
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| “American Realism: The Precise Image.” Isetan Museum, Tokyo, 1985.*
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| “Holiday Fare: Contemporary artists portray food.” G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, 1985.
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| “Artists Choosing Artist.” Artists’ Choice Museum, New York, 1985.
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| “Pastels.” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, 1985.
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| “Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art.” Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1985.*
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| “American Art Today: Still Life.” Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, 1985.*
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| “Recent American Portraiture.” Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1985.
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| “Images and Imagery: Works on Paper.” Art Gallery, Pace University, New York, 1984.
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| “New Realism: Behind the Scenes, Small Paintings and Preliminary Sketches.” College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas, 1984.*
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| “The Artist's Studio in American Painting.” Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, 1984.*
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| “American Realism, 1930's/1980's: A Comparative Perspective.” Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey, 1983.*
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| “New Portraits: Behind Faces.” The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, 1983.*
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| “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; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1983.*
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| “New York, New Art: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries.” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 1983.
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| “An Appreciation of Realism.” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1982.*
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| “The Human Figure.” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1982.*
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| “Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1982.*
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| “Inside Out: The Self Beyond Likeness.” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1981-82.*
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| “Real/Really Real/Super Real.” San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh,1981-82.*
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| “Contemporary American Realism Since 1960.” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Oakland Museum, California, 1981-82.*
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| “The American Landscape: New Developments.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut, 1981.*
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| “A Feast for the Eyes.” Heckscher Museum, New York, 1981.*
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| “American Drawings in Black and White.” Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1980-81.
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| “Aspects of the 70's: Directions in Realism.” Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts, 1980.*
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| “Realism and Metaphor.” College of Fine Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1980.*
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| “American Realism of the 20th Century.” Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Morristown, New Jersey, 1980.
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| “Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation.” Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, 1980.*
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| “Realism/Photorealism,” Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1980.*
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| “American Figure Painting, 1950-1980.” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1980.
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| “Artists’ Choice Museum Prospectus and Benefit Exhibition.” Artists' Choice Museum, New York, 1979.*
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| “Pictura Noua in American Deceniului al Optulea.” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1979.*
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| “American Portraits of the Sixties & Seventies.” Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado, 1979.*
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| “The Pastel in America.” Odyssia Gallery, New York; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, 1979.
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| “Works on Paper.” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1979.
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| “The Big Still-Life.” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City; University of Virginia, Richmond; Art Gallery, Boston University, 1979.*
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| “The Opposite Sex: A Realist Viewpoint.” Art Gallery, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1979.
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| “American Tradition and the Image of Post-Modern Man in Contemporary Painting, Drawing and Sculpture.” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, 1979
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| “Seven on the Figure.” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1979.*
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| “Figurative/Realist Art.” Artists' Choice Museum, New York; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York; Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York; Fischbach Gallery, New York; Kornblee Gallery; Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York; Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1979*
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| “An Invitational Drawing Show.” The DePauw University Art Center, Greencastle, Indiana, 1978.*
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| “American Drawing: 1927-1977.” Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, 1977.*
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| “Artists Choice, Figurative Art in New York.” Green Mountain Gallery, Bowery Gallery, New York; Prince Street Gallery, New York; First Street Gallery, New York; SoHo Center for Visual Artists, New York, 1976-77.*
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| “30 Years of American Printmaking.” Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1976-77.
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| “America '76.” (organized by U.S. Department of the Interior) Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1976- 78.*
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| “The Figure in Drawing Now.” Bennington College, Vermont, 1976.
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| “Visions: Painting and Sculpture, Distinguished Alumni 1945 to the Present.” The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1976.*
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| “American Realists: Watercolors and Drawings.” Meisel Gallery, New York, 1975.
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| “Drawings: Techniques and Types," Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1975*
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| “Portrait Painting, 1970 - 1975.” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1975.*
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| “Candid Painting: American Genre, 1950 - 1975.” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1975.*
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| “Selected Drawings from the Private Collection of Arnold and Mona Root.” Miami-Dade Community College, Florida, 1975.*
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| “Aspects of the Figure.” The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1974.*
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| “Living American Artists and the Figure.” Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art. College Park, 1974.
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| “New Images: Figuration in American Painting.” Queens County Museum, New York, 1974.
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| “American Drawings 1963 - 1973.” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973*
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| “American Realism: Post Pop.” Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1973.
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| “The Richard Brown Baker Collection.” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, 1973.
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| “Drawings by Seven American Realists.” Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, 1973.
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| “Drawings.” Galerie Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto, California, 1973.*
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| “Hand-Colored Prints.” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, 1973.*
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| “The American Landscape/1972.” Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, Massachusetts, 1972.
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| “Painting and Sculpture Today: 1972.” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1972.*
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| “Drawings by Living American Artists.” International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1972.
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| “70th American Exhibition.” Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1972.*
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| “Realist Revival.” American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1972.
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| “American Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture.” National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 1971.*
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| “American Drawing, 1971.” Iowa State University, Ames, 1971.
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| “Drawing by Representational Painters.” Art Center Gallery, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1971.*
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| “New Realism.” State University of New York, Potsdam; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 1971.
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| “Phases of New Realism.” Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1971.
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| “Two Directions in American Painting.” Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1971.*
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| “National Drawing Exhibition.” San Francisco Museum of Art, California, 1970.*
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| “22 Realists.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1970.*
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| “Works On Paper,.” Virginia Museum, Richmond, 1970.
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| “Report On the Sixties.” Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1969.
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| Whitney Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968*, 1969.*
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| Group Show, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1968-69.
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| “Aspects of New Realism.” Milwaukee Art Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Akron Art Institute, 1968-69.*
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| “National Invitational Exhibition.” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, 1968.
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| “Environment.” Dintenfass Gallery. New York, 1967.
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| “Contemporary American Drawings.” Art Museum, University of Colorado, 1967.
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| “The Nude Now.” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1967.
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| “Recent Figurative Art.” Bennington College, Vermont, 1967.
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| “Realism Now.” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1967.
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| “Contemporary Art, U.S.A.” Norfolk Museum, Virginia, 1966.
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| “The Media of Art Now.” Art Museum, University of Kentucky, Louisville, 1966.
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| Group Show. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1966.
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| Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, 1966, 1969, 1974.
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| University of Nebraska Annual, 1965.*
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| J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, 1965.
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| “68th Annual Exhibition.” Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1965.*
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| “Young America.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1965.*
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| “Modern Realism and Surrealism.” American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1965.
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| “The Figure International.” American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1965.
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| “Recent Still-Life.” Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1965.
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| Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York: 1965 (twice), 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975*, 1978, 1980, 1985.
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| *Catalogue
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| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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| Art Institute of Chicago
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| Arkansas Arts Center
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| Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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| Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College, Vermont
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| Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA
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| Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
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| Fine Arts Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee
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| Flint Institute of Arts
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| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga
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| Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Michigan
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| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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| Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit, IRT Mezzanine
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| Minneapolis Institute of Art
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| Mt. Holyoke Museum of Art
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| Museum of Modern Art, New York
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| National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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| Neuberger Museum
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art
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| Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
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| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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| Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
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| Toledo Art Museum
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| University of Virginia Art Museum
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| Valparaiso University
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| Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts
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| Walker Art Center
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| Washington and Lee University, Lewis School of Law
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| Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
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| Whitney Museum of American Art
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