Painter. Beal received his first major award in 1903 and continued to enjoy much acclaim and financial rewards for his work. He spent his summers in Newburgh, NY, 1913-19; summered in Maine, 1920; Provincetown, 1921-22; thereafter in Rockport, 1923-on. He painted watercolors in Puerto Rico, 1916, in the Bahamas and Bermuda, 1919, and also in West Africa. Like his brother Reynolds, he also painted scenes along the New England coast and of the circus. He lived in New York City.

Studied: William M. Chase in New York City and at the Shinnecock Summer School, 1891-1900; Princeton University, 1900; Art Students League with F.V. DuMond and H.W. Ranger.

Member: National Academy; National Institute of Arts and Letters; Arts Students League (president, 1913-29); American Watercolor Society; New York Watercolor Club; National Society of Mural Painters; National Arts Club; Century Association; Architectural League.

Exhibited: Worcester Museum of Art, 1903 (3rd prize); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1903-06, 1908-56; Boston Art Club, 1904,1907,1909; St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (bronze medal); National Academy of Design, 1910 (1st Hallgarten prize), 1913 (Clark prize), 1919 (Altman prize), 1931 (Altman prize), 1932 (Carnegie prize), 1948 (Saltus medal), 1954 (S.F.B. Morse gold medal); Armory Show, New York City, 1913; National Arts Club, 1913 (medal), 1918 (gold medal), 1941 (prize); Art Institute of Chicago, 1913 (prize), 1930; Corcoran Gallery, 1908-53 (medal, 1914; silver medal, 1930); Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915 (gold medal); Newport Art Association, 1917 (prize); Philadelphia Watercolor Club, 1917 (prize); Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-45; Paris International Exposition, 1937 (silver medal); Kraushaar Gallery, New York City, 1920 (solo), 1965 (solo), 1979 (solo), 1985 (solo); Century Club, San Francisco, 1950 (retrospective); Des Moines Art Center, 1953 (solo); American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (memorial exhibition); Fitchburg Art Museum (solo); Storm King Art center (solo); Phillips Collection (retrospective) 1971; Montclair Art Museum (solo);Salons of America; Society of Independent Artists.

Works: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Phillips Memorial Gallery; Whitney Museum of American Art; Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Everson Museum; Detroit Institute of Art.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Harrison Gallery); Newark Museum; Arizona State College; University of Indiana; Joslyn Art Museum; Lehigh University; W.R. Nelson Gallery; New Britain Museum of American Art; Parrish Art Museum; murals, Interior Building, Washington, DC; United States Post Office, Allentown, PA.; etchings, Yale; Princeton; Pennsylvania State Museum of Art; Honolulu Academy of Art; New York Public Library; Fifty Prints of the Year, 1931; Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Baigell, Dictionary; Pisano, The Students of William M. Chase, 27; Brown, The Story of the Armory Show.

(Biography courtesy Hughes, Edan Milton, "Artists in California: 1786-1940," San Francisco: Hughes Publishing Company, 1989.)