Reynolds Beal
Mango Trees, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
1921

Name: Mango Trees, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Brand: Reynolds Beal
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About the Item

Signed lower left and dated 1921. About the artist: From an affluent and artistic family, Reynolds Beal and his younger brother Gifford both made careers in art. Beal was born in the Bronx and spent his childhood exploring and sketching the East River. He studied marine engineering at Cornell, and art at the Art Students League with John Twachtman and with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock School. For many years he was torn between careers in art and ship designing, though his family's affluence allowed him to maintain a lifestyle as both and artist and a yachtsman. He spent years between marine-related jobs and life as an artist, often plagued by problems related to "nervous prostation". He traveled and painted with Childe Hassam, William Glackens and H. Dudley Murphy, and with Hassam, Bellows, Sloan, Glackens and Prendergast helped found the Society of Independent Artists and the New Society of Artists. From 1900 to 1907, he painted almost exclusively at the artist's community in Noank, Connecticut with Henry Ward Ranger. After 1912, Beal focused more on the Hudson River Valley, where he painted the colorful and whimsical scenes of the traveling circuses that came through the region. For many years he lived and painted harbor scenes in Rockport and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Beal is considered both an Impressionist and an adventurous Modernist. His colorful watercolors and oils are rendered in spontaneous, mosaic-like brush strokes. He was most active artistically from 1910 to 1920, after which he became ill. After 1940 he did little painting. He died in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1951. He is widely known for a series of circus and carival paintings he produced. Organizations and exhibits: Beal was a member of the New York City artist organizations -- Salmagundi Club, Lotus Club, Century Club, National Academy of Design (elected 1909), National Arts Club, Brooklyn Society of Etchers, and the American Water Color Society; the Boston Art Club, North Shore Art Association (Gloucester, MA) and the Society of American Engravers. In 1916 Reynolds Beal, along with Glackens and others, founded the Society of Independent Artists (NYC). Beal exhibited at the Salmagundi Club (1902, Hurley Prize); Clausen Gallery (NYC, solo, 1905); The Panama–Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, CA, 1915); Vose Galleries (Boston, solo, 1916); Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France, 1919); and the Fitchburg Art Center (Fitchburg, MA, 1944). Literature: Bressler, Sidney (1989). Reynolds Beal: Impressionist Landscapes and Seascapes. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. William Reynolds Beal, N.Y. Times (June 6, 1912) "Alger Beal papers relating to Reynolds and Gifford Beal (ca. 1890-1965)". Research collections. Archives of American Art. 2011. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011. "Reynolds Beal". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 August 2020. American Masterpieces from Dryads Green Gallery

Creator:

Reynolds Beal (1867 - 1951, American)

Creation Year:

1921

Dimensions:

Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Impressionist

Period:

1920-1929