Beech Grove, c. 1920
Oil on board, 6 x 12 inches
Collection, The Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green

Callie Beals was born December 14, 1870 in Monroe County, Kentucky daughter to John H. and Elizabeth (Smith) Beals. When she was a year old, the Beals family moved to Glasgow in Barren County. Callie grew up in a farming family one of five children. Upon her 1889 graduation from Glasgow Normal School, she taught in the county's common schools in three separate one-room schoolhouses. For one year, she lived in Jackson, Louisiana teaching art at a girl's school before returning to her Glasgow home. Beals had no formal training in the arts other than lessons taken from local art teacher Miss Alice Garnett. Locally known for her flower paintings and beech trees, she pursued a fifty-year passion until failing eyesight forced her to quit painting. Callie Beals died January 7, 1958 in Barren County.

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