| 1925 | Born February 22, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| 1935-40 | Studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1942 | Received scholarship and began study as full time student at the Kansas City Art Institute |
| 1943–46 | Served in the United States Naval Air Corps – Commissioned as Ensign |
| 1949 | Received BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, and MFA (1953) Appointed to faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute Married to Gerry Beeler |
| 1951 | Traveled and painted in Mexico |
| 1953 | Birth of Daughter Janet |
| 1957 | Received purchase prize, Mid-America Annual, Nelson Gallery, Kansas
City, Missouri Appointed Chairman of Painting and Printmaking Department, Kansas City Art Institute |
| 1963 | First solo exhibition in New York. Grand Central Moderns, New York (also 1966) |
| 1965 | Received a sabbatical leave granted by the Kansas City Art Institute, Traveled and studied in Europe; lived and painted in Florence, Italy |
| 1968 | Taught at the Aspen School of Art, Aspen, Colorado |
| 1970-71 | Received grant from Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education
to paint in the southwest United States Lived and painted in Mexico Received grant from Union of Independent Colleges of Art to paint in New York City Taught at the New York Studio School and Boston University at Tanglewood, Massachusetts |
| 1972 | Selected as Artist-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon National Park,
Arizona (sponsored by Artists for the Environment and the U.S. Department of the Interior) |
| 1973 | Taught at the New York Studio School in Paris, France; lived and painted in Paris and Aix-en-Provence |
| 1976 | One-man exhibition at the Ingber Gallery, New York (also 1979, 1983, 1987) |
| 1981 | One-man exhibition at the Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
(also 1983, 1987, 1989) Taught at Yale University, Summer Program, Norfolk, Connecticut |
| 1985 | Received the honorific position of Senior Professor of Painting
at the Kansas City Art Institute Selected for Educators in Fine Arts collection and calendar, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1988 | Received the Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from the College Art Association of America, New York |
| 1989-90 | Taught at Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, New York Taught at Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont |
| 1991-92 | Received a Board of Trustees' Teaching Excellence Award from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri Retired from teaching as Professor Emeritus of Painting Retrospective exhibition. Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute |
| 1994 | Elected to the National Academy of Design, New York |
| 1995 | One-man exhibition at the New York Studio School, New York Purchase of painting by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| 1998 | One-man exhibition at the Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (also 2001) |
| 1999 | Received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Charlotte Street Fund, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2004 | Retrospective Exhibition, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph,
Missouri (Traveled to the Beach Museum, Manhattan, Kansas and Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, New Jersey) |
| 2006 | Received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, New York One-man exhibition at the Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2007 | One man exhibition at the Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2012 | Portrait, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2014 | Still Life, Figure, Landscape, Haw/Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri
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