
Trillium
Catalogue
- Year
- 1977
- Dimensions
- Image: 22 × 21.3 cm (8 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 47.3 × 39.5 cm (18 5/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jack Beal
Artist

Drawing
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.
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More by Jack Beal
Self-Portrait with Reflection
1983 · Pastel on tan wove paper
Portrait of Jalane Davidson
1982 · Charcoal with stumping and erasing on ivory laid paper
Portrait of Jalane Davidson
1979 · Charcoal on white laid paper
Chicago Skyline
1979 · Color lithograph on black wove paper
Chicago Skyline
1979 · Pastel on black wove paper
Study for "Wisconsin Still Life"
1979 · Lithographic crayon on frosted mylar
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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