Mark Beck

Signs of Life

2018

Willard Dixon (American, born 1942) Near San Quentin, 1976 Oil on Canvas Signed lower left Dated lower right 41in H x 62in W In a natural float frame: 42....

The Road depicts the Texas Hill Country which is Garrett Middaugh's favorite painting locations. This is painted in the style of Realism. This is a 2...

Willard Dixon, 'San Francisco, Dusk' was painted in 2023. The original painting is 25 X 37 inches. Framed in a contemporary minimal hardwood, 25.5 x 37.5 inches. Ready to hang and en...

A breathtaking Texas Hill Country landscape painted by American Plain Air painter, Don Warren. The painting is executed in oil on canvas and measures 18 by 24 inches. It is beautifully framed and ready to hang in a gold leaf frame that measures 25 by 31 inches. The scene depicts a clear, idyllic summer day along trail through pastoral lands. A meadow of yellow coreopsis and white argemones make up the foreground, framing the focal point: prickly pair...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good in...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...