G. Harvey
1933-2017
When Lightning Rules the Sky
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 50 inches
Signed lower left
Signed, titled and dated 1991 verso
SOLD FOR: $ 187,200
Including Buyers Premium
2018,
LOT 177
1933-2017
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 50 inches
Signed lower left
Signed, titled and dated 1991 verso
SOLD FOR: $ 187,200
Including Buyers Premium
Here’s how the screenplay opens:
EXTERIOR. NIGHT. THE GREAT PLAINS.
A riderless horse in a lightning-driven stampede. Yellow-slickered cowboys crane their necks, stand in the saddle, and yell, searching for their lost comrade, but they have the herd, their own horses, and their own skins to look out for. It couldn’t be louder, wetter, darker, or more dangerous. And the chances that their friend has survived dwindle with each long second between the flash of the bolt and the crash of thunder…
And the movie rolls from there. All the greats painted or sculpted this scene: Remington, Russell, Johnson, Leigh, Jackson. Classic.