at L, a round, gray patterned pot decorated with yellow lilies, filled with sunflowers, white lilies and dark red flowers sitting on table; at R, rising from behind table are yellow and orange irises/lilies with leaves and stems; table just visible in LL corner, with red tablecloth decorated with blue floral pattern

%C2%A9 Estate of Jack Beal %2F George Adams Gallery

Buds, 1975

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Jack Beal was an American realist painter and printmaker who rejected the emotional intensity and gestural spontaneity of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the postwar era in favor of expressing the ideals of truth, beauty, and morality through more traditional pictorial representation. Beal’s subjects included portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, narrative works, and large-scale murals depicting allegories and myths. Beal considered himself to be a “life painter” and stressed human concerns over aesthetics or theoretical approaches. His work helped define the New Realism movement of the 1960s, a school of figurative painting that included such artists as Al Leslie and Philip Pearlstein, among others.

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Title
Buds
Artist Life
1931–2013
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.147.15
Provenance
Richard M. Sweet, M.D., Santa Rosa, Calif.; given to MIA, 2019.
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at L, a round, gray patterned pot decorated with yellow lilies, filled with sunflowers, white lilies and dark red flowers sitting on table; at R, rising from behind table are yellow and orange irises/lilies with leaves and stems; table just visible in LL corner, with red tablecloth decorated with blue floral pattern

© Estate of Jack Beal / George Adams Gallery

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