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Catalog Number |
1973.01.09 |
Title |
Pond Lilies |
Artist |
Beal, Jack |
Date |
1971 |
Medium |
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Material |
Ink/Paper |
Dimensions |
H-30 L-22.125 inches |
Accession number |
1973.01 |
Description |
Edition 24/120. Lithograph print of the surface of a pond with a lily and lily pads floating on the surface. Small pools of water are gathered atop the lily pads, and the lily's petals are limp as though the flower is dying. Jack Beal (1931-2013) was an abstract expressionist when he left the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956 but became a dedicated realist who sees art as a potentially powerful moral force. Beal calls himself a "life painter" and says he is committed to human over aesthetic concerns. He appreciates platonic ideals of truth, beauty, and goodness, and admires both the realism of seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the compositional authority of Renaissance art. |
Caption |
Pond Lillies |
Culture |
American |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Tomio, Kimberley Bush |
Credit Line |
A Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, Great Neck, N.Y. |
Source |
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky |