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Gifford Beal (American, 1879–1956)
Circus, n.d.

Color monotype, 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.10

Bareback Rider, n.d.

Color monotype, 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.9

Gifford Beal and his brother Reynolds came from a wealthy
family in New York City, and while teenagers both spent
summers studying with William Merritt Chase at the Shinnecock Summer School of Art in the town of Southampton on
Long Island, New York. Gifford went on to graduate from
Princeton in 1900, after which he studied at the Art Students
League of New York, where he served, from 1914 to 1929, as
its president. Beal was very taken with the circus, and completed
many paintings in oil and watercolor of circus scenes—
including several monotypes.
NOTES:
Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture, 30–31.
Watrous, American Printmaking, 84, 94.

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