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Gifford Beal
Lyme Art Colony
American, (1879–1956) In Lyme: 1903-1904
Gifford Beal was born in New York City. While at Princeton University, he spent his summers at Shinnecock HIlls, Long Island, studying painting with William Merrit Chase, and later in New York with Frank Vincent DuMond and Henry Ward Ranger, with whom he traveler to Old Lyme during the summers of 1903 and 1904. He stayed at the Griswold House.

He married Maud Ramsdell in 1908 and made his only visit to Europe, where they spent their honeymoon.

The Beals lived in New York, but spent most of their summers between 1913 and 1920 in newburgh. After 1923 all summers were spent at Rockport, Massachusetts.

Painters, watercolorist, and printmaker, Beal's work covered a wide range of subject matter. Among his watercolors are subjects done during visits to the islands of the Caribbean.

He was a member of the National Academy of Design, and was president of the Art Student's League from 1914 to 1929. In 1904 he won an award from the St. Louis Exposition.