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Art Subject: Flower
(Title Unknown) Limited Edition Giclee on Paper, Signed by Artist
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Limited Edition Giclee on Paper (A.P 18/50). Signed by Artist. Measures 24.5 x 30.25 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Good Condition-wrinkling/creasing consistent with age and...
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée
$220 Sale Price
44% Off
Craggula Tree, Crassula cotyledon Plate 384
Located in Columbia, MO
Craggula Tree, Crassula cotyledon Plate 384
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Roses and Poppies in Spotted Vase (Red), Screenprint by Francesco Scavullo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francisco Scavullo
Title: Roses and Poppies in Spotted Vase (Red)
Year: 1987
Medium: Screenprint, signed and dated l.r. in pencil
Edition: 73/75 (verso)
Size: 36 x 36 inches
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Vase of Flowers - Original Lithograph by M. Avenali - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Vase of Flowers is a nice original lithograph realized by Marcello Avenali in 1950s.
Hand signed in pencil on lower right margin; "P.A." (Artist Proof) on lower left margin in writi...
Category
1950s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sunburst original serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Sunburst by American artist Robert Daughters is a close up of a group of wild sunflowers in yellows and greens. A limited edition print number 62...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
poppy
By Jean Bardon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form foun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Marvel of Peru Common, Mirabilis jalapa Plate 371
Located in Columbia, MO
Marvel of Peru Common, Mirabilis jalapa Plate 371
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Winter Iris
By Jean Bardon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form foun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Jean Bardon — Dahlia, Color Etching
By Jean Bardon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form found in Asian art. Some prints also include gold leaf, recalling the extensive use of gold on Japanese folding screens, and in early Renaissance painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Campions, " Lithograph Still Life by Sheila Stafford
By Sheila Stafford
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Campions" is an original color lithograph by Sheila Stafford. The artist signed the piece in the lower right and titled it and wrote the edition number (24/24) in the lower left - b...
Category
1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peter De Pannemaeker - Mid 19th Century Lithograph, Masdevallia Polysticta
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming, highly collectable chromolithograph from the 19th century book L'Illustration horticole. Artist name and flower species printed in plate. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cosmos-Scene A-22
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio with monotype background
Image size: 7.75 × 7.75 in (19.7 × 19.7 cm)
Sheet size: 17.75 × 15.25 in (45.09 × 38.47 cm)
Edition of 20
Year: 2022
Tachibana’s prints tak...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Monoprint
Kristjana Williams, Ad Moldu Skaltu Verda – Still Skeleton White, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Kristjana Williams
Ad Moldu Skaltu Verda – Still Skeleton White
Limited Edition Print
Giclee print on Paper
Edition of 275
Size: H 55cm x W 27.3cm
S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Western Lullabies N°6, Art print, Floral, Plants, Flowers art, Art on paper
Located in Deddington, GB
Forsyth’s work conveys his love of the drama of nature, seeking to expand the beauty of natural forms that we sometimes overlook in everyday life showing an extra dimension in his wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Archival Ink
Red Rose, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Red Rose
Year: 1980
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 30...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Four Flowers, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Four Flowers
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: 1980
Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 137200
Image Size: 25 x 25 inches
Size: 31.5 x 31.25 i...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Flowerpot - Lithograph by Jovan Vulic - 1988
By Jovan Vulic
Located in Roma, IT
Flowerpot is a beautiful colored lithograph on paper, realized in 1988 by the artist, Jovan Vulic (1951).
Hand-signed and numbered in pencil on the lower margin.Edition of 150 print...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Still Life of Tulips and Orchids', Academie Chaumiere, MAM Paris, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Garcia Fons' for Pierre Garcia-Fons (French, 1928-2016), and inscribed lower left with edition number and limitation, '80/80'; also inscribed, lower left, 'Garci...
Category
1970s Still-life Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
Pink Camellia, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil.
Pink Camellia from the Stamps Series
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–199...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Vase de Fleurs - Etching by Louis Lemaire - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Vase de Fleurs is an original artwork realized by Louis Lemaire in 1870. Original etching on paper.
Artist's proof, before letter.
Good conditions, e...
Category
1870s Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Toad-flax Clammy, Antirrhinum viscosum Plate 368
Located in Columbia, MO
Toad-flax Clammy, Antirrhinum viscosum Plate 368
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
Located in Columbia, MO
Amaryllis Waved-flowerd, Amaryllis undulatea Plate 369
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Corn-flag Copper coloured, Gladiolus securiger Plate 383
Located in Columbia, MO
Corn-flag Copper coloured, Gladiolus securiger Plate 383
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
------- Pyramidal, ------- Pyramidalis Plate 366
Located in Columbia, MO
—–---Pyramidal, -------Pyramidalis Plate 366
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
White Rose
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Rose
Year: 1981
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Three Irises on Green, Floral Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Three Irises on Green
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 40
Image Size: 20 x 44 inche...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Bluebells and Snowdrops diptych
By Lucy Routh
Located in Deddington, GB
Bluebells and Snowdrops diptych
Overall sheet size : H80 x W80
Lucy Routh – Bluebells
Inspired by nature and the beauty found in everyday objects. I combine traditional still life s...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Weed Wreath (edition 5/6)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Weed Wreath (edition 5/6)" is an original artwork made from hand colored cut-plate intaglio on Somerset by Katie VanVliet. This piece is the fifth in an edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color, Intaglio
Wild Flowers VII, Modern Etching by Aubrey Schwartz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aubrey Schwartz, American (1928 - 2019) - Wild Flowers VII, Year: 1966, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 28/100, Image Size: 4.75 x 3.75 inches, Size: 14 x 1...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Georges Braque, "Vase de Fleurs Jaunes", aquatint in colors, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Georges Braque
Vase de Fleurs Jaunes (Vase of Yellow Flowers)
Aquatint in colors on BFK Rives paper
Hand signed and signed in plate, numbered 190/300 from an edition of 300.
Blind st...
Category
1960s Cubist Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Gochka Charewicz - Herbarium - Original Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
CHAREWICZ Gochka (XXe)
Michel Butor's Herbarium
Signed and numbered 2/29
Dimensions: 42 x 32 cm. Toutes marges.
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Agent X, One Queen (6)White, Floral Art, Art of the Queen, Contemporary Art
By Agent X
Located in Deddington, GB
Agent X
One Queen (6)White
Limited Edition of 100
Mixed Media on Paper
Sold Unframed
Paper Size: 71 cm x 50 cm x 1cm
Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Giclée
Full Bloom
By Chris Keegan
Located in London, GB
6-layer screenprint on white paper with a white border
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 50
Chris Keegan is a British illustrator and artist known for his intricate and vibrant works that blend...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Untitled S25
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
These cyanotype prints of botanical...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Red Poppies, Contemporary Floral Screenprint by Donald Sultan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Sultan, American (1951 - )
Title: Red Poppies
Year: 1989
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 125
Image Size: 12 x 12...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Iris, Amaryllis, Lilies
By Jean Bardon
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The formality, ornamental qualities and boldness of botanical art strongly influence Bardon's art. It is easy to see her inspiration in the patterns, line and simplicity of form found in Asian art. Some prints also include gold leaf,
recalling the extensive use of gold on Japanese folding screens, and in early Renaissance painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled 52
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
These cyanotype prints of botanical...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Botanical from "The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Annuals" Yellow Loasa
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Lady Jane Webb Loudon (British, 1800 - 1858)
9.5 x 8 in. page.
12 x 14 in. frame.
A "chromolithographic" plate from The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals. By Mrs. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Violet Monochrome, Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Violent Monochrome
Year: 1980
Edition: 56/200, plus proofs.
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Size: 31.5 x 31 inches
Condition: Good
Inscri...
Category
1980s Pop Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
$876 Sale Price
20% Off
Red Lilies, Photorealist Lithograph by Jochen Labriola
By Jochen Labriola
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jochen Labriola, American
Title: Red Lilies
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Lithograph, signed and dedicated l.r.
Size: 34 x 25 in. (86.36 x 63.5 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marigold, Photorealist Lithograph by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt was an American painter and printmaker who’s work consists of unique and vivid depictions of flowers.
Marigold
Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993)
Date: ...
Category
1970s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical splendor of Italian flowers with highly detailed captures
Flora Italiana ( Waratah Red )
64 x 48 inches (162 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 30 inches (102 x 76cm)
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on label
custom/larger sizes are available on request
___________________
About the artist
Linda Rosewall’s artistic path was cemented during her childhood. She was inspired by her farther, an accomplished musician and composer who raised his six children as a performing family act.
The experience of traveling the United States and Canada in a small airplane piloted by her father provided the opportunity for Linda to capture these moments on her small Kodak Instamatic Camera.
At the age of 18, she enrolled at Columbia College of Fine Arts Chicago. During her studies, Linda apprenticed under photographer Norman Bilisko and later worked with Dennis Manarchy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Flora Italiana (Narcissus Poetic) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works exploring the botanica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Flora Italiana ( Anemone Viola ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Three Irises on Yellow, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Three Irises on Yellow
Year: 1980
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 15.25 x 36 in...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362
Located in Columbia, MO
Heath Recurved, Erica retorta Plate 362
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Brunfelsia American, Brunfelsia americana Plate 393
Located in Columbia, MO
Brunfelsia American, Brunfelsia americana Plate 393
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
------- Shining-leaved, Salvia formosa Plate 376
Located in Columbia, MO
—– Shining-leaved, Salvia formosa Plate 376
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Cyrilla Scarlet-flowered, Cyrilla pulchella Plate 374
Located in Columbia, MO
Cyrilla Scarlet-flowered, Cyrilla pulchella Plate 374
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
Located in Columbia, MO
Milk-vetch Montpelier, Astragalus monspessulanus Plate 375
1797
Hand-colored etching
Ed. 1st ed.
9 x 5.25 inches
Category
1790s Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
The White Prince-Poster. New York Graphic Society. Lithographed in USA
Located in Chesterfield, MI
PAUL DE LONGPRÉ (French, 1855-1911)
The White Prince
Poster/Print
22 x 17 in. Unframed
Plate signed
Copyright New York Graphic Society. Lithographe...
Category
Late 20th Century Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shepard Fairey Stencil Letterpress Rose Shackle Screenprint Contemporary Street
Located in Draper, UT
Manufacturer:
Obey Giant
Edition Details:
Year: 2019
Class: Fine Art Print
Status: Official
Released: 01/08/19
Run: 417/450
Technique: Letterpress
Paper: Cream Cotton
Size: 10 X 13
M...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
White Iris on Purple, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: White Iris on Purple
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 35 x 24 inches...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Anise Magenta [Star Anise I]
Located in New York, NY
Photogram on Polaroid Type 809 (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in black ink, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Brian Buckley’s work has alway...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Polaroid
Ananus Sclvestris ( Pineapple ) N. 110 mezzotint engraving with hand coloring
Located in Paonia, CO
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Ananus Sclvestris ( Pineapple ) N. 110
mezzotint engraving with hand coloring
paper size 15.50 x 9.50
image size 13 x 8.25
Ananus Sclvestris ( Pineapple ) N....
Category
1730s Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bud Vase VI (Wedding Present) (abstract, still life, monotype, flowers, neutral)
Located in New York, NY
Flowers / Bouquet / Flora
29.75 x 29.75 inches framed
Artist Statement
Rachel Burgess makes autobiographical works on paper of landscapes and domestic scenes. Window-like in scale...
Category
2010s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Monotype
Art of the 80's New York Exhibition-Poster
Located in Chesterfield, MI
PEMA
Art of the 80's, New York Exhibition-Poster. Measures 36 x 24 inches Unframed. Plate Signed. Fair/Distressed Condition.
Category
1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled L15
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
These cyanotype prints of botanical...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Untitled F24
Located in New York, NY
Cyanotype (Unique)
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
These cyanotype prints of botanical...
Category
1990s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Color
Buds
By Jack Beal
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Buds
Color lithograph, 1980
Signed, titled, and editioned in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Art Matters
Printer: Bud Shark, Shark's Ink, Lyons, CO
Condition: Excellent
Image: 31-1/8 x 41-1/4" (79 x 104.7 cm.)
"An Abstract Expressionist when he left the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956, Beal has since become a dedicated realist who sees art as a potentially powerful moral force. He has great regard for Platonic ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and admires both the realism of seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the compositional authority of Renaissance art. Since moving to New York in the late 1950s with his wife, painter Sondra Freckelton, Beal has painted still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, although in recent years his most ambitious undertakings have been large-scale allegories and myths. In describing his approach, Beal calls himself a "life painter" and says he is committed to human over aesthetic concerns. Yet his intricate complexes of figures and surface patterns, along with his adroit handling of space, reveal his sophisticated, accomplished sense of composition.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Biography
Jack Beal (1931-2013) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He briefly attended the College of William and Mary, studying biology, but dropped out after two years. A decision to take evening art classes lead to his attending the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied from the old masters in the Institute’s collection and with Isobel Steele MacKinnon, a student of Hans Hoffman. His classmates there included Red Grooms, Richard Estes, Claes Oldenberg and Robert Barnes, and while abstract expressionism remained “the only valid way to paint,” it was a style that all would eventually reject. In 1956 Beal left the Art Institute and moved to New York with the aim of finding success as a painter, eventually becoming one of the first artists to settle in the SoHo neighborhood.
A turning point came in 1962 when, spending the summer in upstate New York, Beal decided to begin painting outdoors. Dissatisfied with abstract painting, he “wanted to give Art one more try” and in working from nature “fell in love with painting all over again.” Over the next few years Beal worked toward a balance between expressionistic paint handling and realistic, narrative pictures. Clement Greenberg’s pronouncement around this time, that the figure was no longer a valid subject was taken as a challenge by many artists, Beal included. His subsequent adoption of the female nude - modeled by his wife, the artist Sondra Freckelton - was a break-through. Though the paintings retained the sensuousness of his earlier canvases, the rigorous formality of their composition and the masterful treatment of light and shadow offered a new approach to realist painting. Indeed, Beal was not alone in this transformation; friends and colleagues in New York were coming to similar conclusions and the group, who included painters such as Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Jack Tworkov, Nell Blaine and Fairfield Porter, would eventually be considered the ‘New Realists.’
With the resurgence of figurative painting, Beal distinguished himself for his skillful handling of color and modeling as well as what was later described as his “pushing of representational forms to their interface with abstraction”. Through the later half of the 1960s, while his subject matter remained unchanged, his paintings were increasingly given over to wide areas of flat color. In 1969, he exhibited a series of Table Paintings which, with their hard-edge style and near complete abstraction of the form, were a radical departure for Beal. So radical in fact, he was accosted by fellow realist painters Alfred Leslie and Sidney Tillim, who berated him “for betraying realism and betraying [himself], for moving away from ‘the true path’.” The incident had its intended effect and Beal did return to a more naturalistic and humanistic style, eventually abandoning the nude in favor of increasingly allegorical portraits. In 1974, the United States General Services Administration commissioned Beal to produce a series of murals for the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington D.C. The result was The History of Labor, four, 12 x 13 foot paintings in the vein of George Caleb Bingham, each illustrating a century of American development.
Following the completion of the murals in 1977, Beal continued to make use of narrative in his paintings, with portraiture and self-portraiture as a means of exploring moral and didactic themes. He and Sondra had purchased an old mill in upstate New York in 1974 and after extensive renovations, it became their permanent residence. Unsurprisingly, many of his later paintings are pastoral scenes based on his rural surroundings or still lives including flowers which they grew on the property. In 1986, Beal was commissioned by the Art in Transit Initiative to create a large-scale mural as part of the redevelopment of the Times Square Subway Station. The proposed mosaic mural, The Return of Spring, took over fifteen years to complete, with the two, 7 x 20 foot sections finally installed in 2001 and 2005. Together they update the Greek myth of Persephone with a New York setting, showing her abduction by Hades, initiating the arrival of winter, and her release, bringing the bountiful return of spring.
Beal was a founder of the Artist’s Choice Museum, New York and the New York Academy of Art as well as the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including honorary degrees from the Art Institute of Boston and the Hollins College...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,200





