Oral history interview with Jack Beal
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 10 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Beal, Jack, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988
label: Names
content: Doyle, Tom
label: Names
content: Giles, William, 1930-
label: Names
content: Kirby, Michael
label: Names
content: Landsman, Stanley, 1930-
label: Names
content: Michod, Ivan
label: Names
content: Michod, Susan A., 1945-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Beal, Jack, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jack Beal (1931- 2013) was a painter from Oneonta, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 35 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968 March 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.beal68
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jack Beal conducted 1968 March 27, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Beal speaks of his family background, southern artists, the Chicago Art Institute, studying with Kathleen Blackshear, the "Wells Street Group", the influence of Arshile Gorky and Chicago artists. He discusses refusing a scholarship to the Hans Hofmann School; the Cedar Bar; the New York art world; his wife, Sandra; painting with Ivan and Susan Michod and the "color" of color television. Beal comments on making a movie with Tom Doyle, William Giles, Michael Kirby, and Stanley Landsman; living off the land; and overcoming the "masterpiece complex."