Graphite and crayon on buff paper board, 1944, signed at lower left, titled and dated at lower right, retaining gallery label to verso, matted in a giltwood frame below glass.

Sheet sight 11 x 14 in.; Frame dimensions 19 x 22 1/4 in.

Royal Galleries, Englewood, New Jersey.

Reynolds Beal was born in New York and was the elder brother of painter Gifford Beal. Beal painted coastal scenes, circuses, and carnivals across Provincetown, Key West, Rockport, Atlantic City and Wellfleet. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Lotus Club, the Century Club, the National Academy of Design, and the American Water Color Society. He was also a member of the Society of American Engravers and the National Arts Council. He helped found the Society of Independent Artists and the New Society of Artists. In 1944, Reynolds and Gifford participated in a large joint exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Center (now Museum) in Fitchburg, MA, which included eighty-three works that had been executed all over the world. One curator noted, "like Lever and Lawson, he (Beal) favored the Fauvistic direction, with its strong link to the radical childlike innocence of the American land."

Allover even toning to sheet, not examined outside the frame.