The Artist and His Wife in an Interior
Jack Beal
1964
- Medium
- Charcoal with smudging on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 42.8 cm (13 7/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- charcoal
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)plant materialprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
Jack Beal attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in the 1950s, when drawing from life was still an important part of the curriculum. Throughout his career he remained dedicated to the realist tradition, even though at the time realism was regularly accused of being old-fashioned and irrelevant. His wife, Sondra Freckelton, had been a fellow SAIC student, and many of Beal’s paintings during the 1960s depict her in various poses. In this drawing he portrayed her reading as he worked.
