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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.

Richmond, VA, USA