{"title":"Beal, Gifford","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGifford Beal (1879-1956)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an American painter, watercolourist, printmaker and muralist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in New York City on 24th January 1879, Gifford Beal was the youngest son in a family of six surviving children. His oldest brother Reynolds Beal (1866-1951) also went on to become an accomplished painter, as did his niece Marjorie Acker (1894-1985), who married Duncan Phillips, the founder of The Phillips Collection of Washington, D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeal knew from an early age that he wanted to paint. Between 1892 and 1901, he studied with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/chase-william-merritt?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=merritt+cha\u0026amp;_psid=24940b204\u0026amp;_ss=e\" title=\"William Merritt Chase\"\u003eWilliam Merritt Chase\u003c\/a\u003e (1849-1916) on weekends in New York City and during the summer at Chase’s Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island. After graduating from Princeton University in 1900, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1901 to 1903 with George Brandt Bridgman (1864-1943) and Frank Vincent DuMond (1865-1951).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe died on 5th February 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Beal_Gifford_1879-1956.jpg?v=1792335617","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/beal-gifford.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}