Gifford Beal (American, 1879-1956)
Four Mural Studies for the Entrance Hall of the John C. Green School of Engineering at Princeton University
, 1946. Unsigned, main panel inscribed "Gifford Beal/19 Atlantic Street/Rockport/Mass" on the reverse. Oil on Masonite, sizes to 23 1/2 x 91 1/2 in., unframed. Condition: Panels with losses to edges, main panel with a cut-out and broken area at l.r. edge, one side panel with water staining, all with surface grime and general wear.
N.B. The lot is accompanied by seven blueprints of elevations for the entrance lobby credited to Ernest F. Tyler, New York City, February-May, 1946, and titled "Scheme of the Canvasses by G. Beal to be Hung on the Walls of the Entrance Hall of the Engineering Building, Princeton University." The blueprints provide a key to the mural subjects.
Gifford Beal was a member of the Class of 1900 at Princeton. The murals, purportedly created to celebrate the bicentennial of Princeton"s founding, were located in the lobby of