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THBDonald Beale, Beech Forest (Fall)
About Seller
396 Main Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
United States
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s (AFCC) mission is to support, promote, and celebrate the arts and culture of Cape Cod in order to sustain a vibrant, diverse, and strong arts community. Today, that work has never been more important. Auction proceeds help the AFCC to fulfill our mission through: gr...Read more
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About Auction
TimedNov 28, 2025 - Dec 14, 2025
To benefit the mission of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Arts Foundation of Cape Cod atuttle@artsfoundation.org
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Oil on Canvas. "My paintings are made from either direct observation or are studio inventions. Both ways of working are informed by years of looking at the art from the distant past to the work done by my contemporaries. The landscape is most of what I do when working from life. Painting from life forces me to be truly awake, and to look deeply at what I'm confronted with. It can be an overwhelming experience, and I find the only way forward is to trust my impulses and instincts to find some way to articulate a deeper understanding of what it means to be there. If all goes well the painting finds a form that expresses something that goes beyond expected and easy answers, and exposes deeper and more difficult truths. Working from life is both exhilarating and exhausting and is the most demanding work I've ever done. It's the foundation everything else I do stands on. The invented paintings made in my studio begin as open mark making and smears of color that attempt nothing more than to establish a spatial relationship with one another. As these relationships build, suggestions of imagery inevitably emerge. If these images feel vital I try to foster them, if not, they get knocked down until something new takes shape. Working this way I can build paintings that are found through an abstract language from which the unbeckoned and mythologized memories of figures, animals, landscapes, florals are created unforced, and unmannered. Working this way I'm able to find something unexpected, and avoid the self conscious and literal responses that working from a fixed idea can lead to." Donald Beal was born in 1959 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. He moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1984 where he has lived and worked ever since. Beal has taught drawing and painting Cape wide for nearly forty years, and was a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth from 1999 through 2019. Beal is one of two recipients of the 2013 Lillian Orlowsky William Freed Fellowship Grant (LOWF). Dimensions: 17" x 19" (18" x 20" framed). Website: www.donaldbeal.com. Social: donaldbeal59 Gallery: Berta Walker Gallery (Provincetown and Wellfleet) and Thomas Deans Fine Art (Atlanta). Valued at: $4,500.00.
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