WILLIAM BECKMAN: New Works By An American Master
WILLIAM BECKMAN: New Works by an American Master
“I think all artists share this, we feel that
we have something to offer or to say. And there’s
that need to want to leave something
behind…we are only here for a short time.”
“I really like being alone…I never play music,
never listen to anything, it’s just dead silence.
So I’ve become the automatic subject…
there’s probably no one that I know better than myself.”
William Beckman, S.P. w/ I-P, 2019, oil on panel, 23 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches
“I’ve only done one painting…where the figures are touching each other. (With) all my paintings…there’s a space given to each figure, so they have their own identity. They’re not overlapped, and that’s intentional.”
William Beckman
Soybeans/Wheat, 2020
oil on panel
7 x 18 1/4 inches
SOLD
William Beckman, Bales #4, 2018, oil on panel, 73 x 99 1/2 inches
“It really left an impression on me to watch wide open water. It’s not unlike Montana with wide open wheat fields. There’s a very similar feeling.”
William Beckman, Montana, 2020, oil on canvas, 58 x 104 inches
“I don’t do landscapes that are ‘scenic’ scenes…
what I am looking for are working farms…
The land has to have been worked.”
William Beckman, Overcoat with Plowed Field [detail], 2018-2019, oil on canvas, 100 x 73 inches
“I grew up in Minnesota…so I understood the purpose
of an overcoat and it’s obviously for warmth,
but it’s for security…The overcoat becomes armor.”