C. C. Beall

C. C. Beall poster for the Seventh War Loan Drive (May 14–June 30, 1945)

C. C. Beall (1892-1967) was an American commercial illustrator and portrait artist during the 1930s and 1940s. He also did watercolor art for magazines and comic books.

Early life

Beall was born on 15 October 1892 in Saratoga, Wyoming with the given name Cecil Calvert. His parents were Charles W. Beall and Eugenia N. Beall. He had a brother who was a year older, Roger.[1]

Education

Beall received tutoring from the Canadian-American painter George Brant Bridgman at the Art Students League in New York City. He also attended Pratt Institute to learn the art of watercolor painting and poster drawing.[1]

Career

Beall did work for many of the leading periodicals of the twentieth century. His watercolor style was in a type of bold contrasting reflections, which was popular at the time. The magazines that he produced paintings and colored drawings for included Collier's, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Home Companion, Saturday Evening Post, American Family Circle, This Week, and some Meredith magazines. Beall also produced art work for Reader's Digest book covers in the 1950s.[2]

General MacArthur, surrender WWII on USS Missouri - painting by C.C. Beall

Beall's 1936 painting of President Roosevelt for Collier's cover page led to the position as art director for the Democratic National Committee.[3]

During WW II, he was an employee of the U. S. War Department.[4] He also was a correspondent-artist during World War II for several magazines, including Collier's, and painted portraits of decorated war heroes. Beall was an eye witness at the 1945 official Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri. He painted President Truman at the event, which later became the official portrait.[1][5][6]

Poster

Beall's 1945 Treasury poster painting of Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the replacement American flag on Iwo Jima was used for the war campaign in the Seventh Loan drive which brought in more than $26 billion in 6 weeks time to help end World War II. The original American flag was taken down as a memento. The total fund raised for all eight War Bond drives was $156 billion.[7][8]

Family

Beall married Mildred Muriel Hall in 1920. They had three children. Their two daughters have no genealogy records on them. Their son was Charles Calvert Beall (1921-1983).[9]

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