Gerald Harvey A Stroll on the Plaza Cityscape Horse Carriage Lithograph COA 42"

Description

Vintage limited edition artists proof lithograph print showing Victorian horses and carriages being driven through a park during winter near New York City Plaza Hotel, titled “A Stroll on the Plaza” by G. Harvey. Issued in 1998 by Somerset House Publishing, signed and numbered 63/250. Includes COA.

“Gerald Harvey Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1933. His grandfather was a cowboy during the trail-driving era when legends grew up along the dusty trails north from Texas. Family stories of wild cattle and tough men were absorbed by a wide-eyed boy and became the genesis of G. Harvey's art. A graduate in fine arts at North Texas State University, Harvey taught full-time and painted nights and weekends for several years. It was through painting that he found his greatest satisfaction, and his native central Texas hill country provided the inspiration for most of his earliest work.

With the development of his talent and the growth of his following, Harvey began to expand his artistic horizons. He left teaching and concentrated on a career in fine art. He sought the essence that is Texas and found it not only along the banks of the Guadalupe, but in cow camps west of the Pecos, and in the shadows of tall buildings in big Texas cities.

The streets of Dallas once echoed with the sound of horses' hooves and the jingle of spurs. Historic photographs reveal what it looked like, but only an artist like Harvey can enable a viewer to experience the mood and flavor or the time. Contemporary west art has too often centered on the literal representations from its roots in illustrations. Artists like G. Harvey take us a step further, to the subjective impressions that are unique to each great talent and which constitutes something special and basic to fine art expression. Harvey is a soft-spoken and unassuming man who cares deeply about what he paints without becoming maudlin or melodramatic. We sense there is more in each Harvey painting than just that which is confined to the canvas.

G. Harvey died Nov. 13, 2017 at age 84.”

Condition

Very Good

Dimensions

35.5” x 1.25” x 41.5” / Sans Frame – 22” x 27.5” (Width x Depth x Height)