G. Harvey
1933-2017
Line Shack Cowhands
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 24 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 37 x 49 inches
SOLD FOR: $204,000.00
Including Buyers Premium
2026 - APRIL,
LOT 356
Additional Information
Provenance:
Legacy Gallery
Private collection, California
Texas-born artist G. Harvey linked his Western paintings to history, but they were not bound by it. Instead, his paintings are adventures of the human spirit and all of the drama and romance that spirit embodies. “The essence of G. Harvey’s style conveys the emotion he feels for his subject matter and the inextricable link of its history with his own. The play of broken color allows the viewer to become actively involved in interpretation. The art is impressionistic in that it provides us images
of trees, hills, cities and rivers, but we can also feel the invisible cold, howling wind, stifling heat, sadness, joy and longing. Warmly lit windows beckon as we shudder from the mist and chill that penetrate a lonely rider,” writes Randy Best in The Golden Era: A Celebration of Light by G. Harvey. “Through his art, G. Harvey heightens our senses and powers of observation. Inexplicably, we are able to see a sunset beyond the corner of his canvas, the glow which has illuminated the panes in a storefront and rough sideboards on a wagon. We gain an impression of times just beyond the periphery of our memory, but close enough that his illumination warms our fancy.”