Self-Portrait with Reflection
1983 · Pastel on tan wove paper
64.8 × 50.2 cm (25 9/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Jack Beal
American, 1931
Richmond, VA, USA
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Movin'
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Artists by Artists
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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New Art for the New Year
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977–1978
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A Museum Menagerie
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
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Jack Beal was an American painter known for large-scale figurative and still-life works executed in a direct, realist manner. Working primarily in oil, he developed a practice centered on domestic and culinary subjects, rendered with close attention to texture, light, and spatial relationships. His work emerged from and engaged with postwar American figuration, maintaining a commitment to representation and craftsmanship through decades marked by abstraction's dominance.
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