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About The Artist: Jack Beal

An abstract expressionist and figurative painter, Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931. As a young child he was often ill with ear infections and to take his mind off the pain his mother encouraged him to draw. Although his drawing talent set him apart from his peers, Beal might never have become an artist if a professor at the College of William and Mary had not changed his life by telling him to leave school and go to The Art...