Cellist

By: Joel Becktell

Cellist

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Cello

By: Joel Becktell

Cello

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Santa Cecilia with Cello

By: Joel Becktell

Santa Cecilia with Cello

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Autumn Landscape

By: Joel Becktell

Autumn Landscape

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Bird in Flight

By: Joel Becktell

Bird in Flight

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Fast Walk Through Town

By: Joel Becktell

Fast Walk Through Town

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Old House, Full of Ghosts

By: Joel Becktell

Old House, Full of Ghosts

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Moonset Over the Bosque

By: Joel Becktell

Moonset Over the Bosque

This scene is from November, when the trees in the bosque near my studio are bare aside from a few tenacious cottonwood leaves clattering in the breeze. When I walk out there after dark, this is what I see off to my right.

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Mountain Landscape in Fall

By: Joel Becktell

Mountain Landscape in Fall

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Summer Landscape

By: Joel Becktell

Summer Landscape

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Mountain Landscape

By: Joel Becktell

Mountain Landscape

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Sonata for Violin and Piano

By: Joel Becktell

Sonata for Violin and Piano

I made this painting while listening to a livestream concert played by two of my dear friends during the 2020 quarantine.

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Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #1

By: Joel Becktell

Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #1

I pass these fields many times a week, and I am always transfixed by their geometry and texture, which change from season to season.

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Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #2

By: Joel Becktell

Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #2

I pass these fields many times a week, and I am always transfixed by their geometry and texture, which change from season to season.

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Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #3

By: Joel Becktell

Hay Field in Bosque Farms, Fall #3

I pass these fields many times a week, and I am always transfixed by their geometry and texture, which change from season to season.

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Grove

By: Joel Becktell

Grove

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J.S. Bach Improvising

By: Joel Becktell

J.S. Bach Improvising

For the record, I never met J.S. Bach. He was nearly 280 years old when I was born. But like countless people in the past century and a half or so since his music was re-introduced to the world after more than a century in obscurity, I have spent many, many hours in his presence. I often daydream about what historical figures were like in life. It can be hard to convince myself, even though I know it’s true, that they were in most respects just folks. This painting is certainly not a likeness of the real J.S. Bach, but it represents a moment in my life of seeking to encounter him in the flesh, and not just with my ears.

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Landscape

By: Joel Becktell

Landscape

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Desert Landscape, Winter

By: Joel Becktell

Desert Landscape, Winter

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Storm Over West Mesa

By: Joel Becktell

Storm Over West Mesa

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Bosque, Winter

By: Joel Becktell

Bosque, Winter

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Bosque Fire

By: Joel Becktell

Bosque Fire

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Souvenir of Amsterdam, Spring

By: Joel Becktell

Souvenir of Amsterdam, Spring

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