Sold for $31,500

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

Gerald Harvey Jones

(American, 1933-2017)

In for Supplies

oil on canvas

signed G. Harvey, Austin (lower left)

24 x 30 inches

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Provenance:
Saks Galleries, Denver, Colorado
Sold: Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 14, 2010, Lot 6

G. Harvey’s In For Supplies places us outside the general store on a snow-encrusted moonlit night. The scene is placid. The horses seem entirely at ease. What is the urgency that necessitated this trip to town on a cold night? What are the “supplies” in the title? Is it serious? Is someone ill and in need of medicine? Or is it simply that someone is short of a key ingredient for a recipe - or a party? Harvey lets us wonder. Whatever the mystery is, it lies behind the orange light in the window and it will remain a mystery, though we might well make up stories of our own - like medicine or sugar for a cake - to explain the painting. And perhaps that’s the point, an essential point behind all of the arts: the artist will always leave something to the imagination, something for us to interpret - an unclear ending, an open door. These are the things that draw us to art and keep us coming back.

- James D. Balestrieri

Condition Report

Overall good and stable condition; black light does not reveal any areas of inpainting, loss, damage or repair; small points of possible soiling visible along bottom edge of canvas - approximately 5 pinhead-sized points. Framed dimensions: 32 x 38 inches. Please request additional images.

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