Sold for $69,300

Gerald Harvey Jones, forever known to the world as G. Harvey, created a style of painting that makes his work instantly recognizable. Adapting the nostalgic Belle Epoque light and the thick, wide, Post-Impressionist paint strokes of French artists like Edoard Cortes to the poetry of American cities and Western scenes, G. Harvey’s facture - a new word for the way an individual artist creates - blurs past and present, then and now, so that as your eye wanders through and across one of his canvases, time becomes irrelevant. The underpinning of his beautifully executed compositions is duty - people going about their daily lives, doing what they have to do, even in a downpour, as in The New Fillies. The counterpoint to the misty gray rain in the painting is the soft yellow-orange glow of the light from the cabin windows, their reflection in the puddles, and the hue of the cowboy’s slicker. The cowboy’s mount knows where it is going but somehow Harvey paints the wisp of a question - and even concern - on the faces of the fillies as they wonder where they are being led, etching a subtle poignancy into the fabric of the work.