Life magazine, 1940 January 8

Three-page review of exhibit of Beale paintings at the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia. Calls Beale a "great magic-lantern artist," the first time his actual artistic role is recognized. Previous press reports had said his work was to illustrate books that had never been published, and so Beale's paintings had never been seen before-a clever marketing ploy by Arthur Colen, who purchased Beale's work, and used this story to get an exhibit of it at The Whitney Museum of American Art.