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"TAKING STOCK" WESTERN G. HARVEY SCULPTURE W/BOOK BRONZE 1986
"TAKING STOCK" WESTERN G. HARVEY SCULPTURE W/BOOK BRONZE 1986

G. Harvey"TAKING STOCK" WESTERN G. HARVEY SCULPTURE W/BOOK BRONZE 1986, 1986

$9,900

H 14 in W 15 in D 11.5 in

"TAKING STOCK" WESTERN G. HARVEY SCULPTURE W/BOOK BRONZE 1986

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1980s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"SOUNDS OF SPRING" G. HARVEY WATERFALL COLORADO OR YOSEMITE
"SOUNDS OF SPRING" G. HARVEY WATERFALL COLORADO OR YOSEMITE

G. Harvey"SOUNDS OF SPRING" G. HARVEY WATERFALL COLORADO OR YOSEMITE, 2003

$89,000

H 30 in W 28 in D 4 in

"SOUNDS OF SPRING" G. HARVEY WATERFALL COLORADO OR YOSEMITE

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Oil

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"Smithsonian Dream" Print
"Smithsonian Dream" Print

Gerald Harvey Jones"Smithsonian Dream" Print, 1975

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H 33 in W 22 in D 2 in

"Smithsonian Dream" Print

By Gerald Harvey Jones

Located in Pasadena, CA

Gerald Harvey Jones, known for his depictions of historical moments, captures the timeless spirit of the

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1970s Landscape Paintings

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Other Medium

The Avenue Lights (5th Avenue, New York City)
The Avenue Lights (5th Avenue, New York City)

Gerald Harvey JonesThe Avenue Lights (5th Avenue, New York City)

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H 20 in W 16 in

The Avenue Lights (5th Avenue, New York City)

By Gerald Harvey Jones

Located in Missouri, MO

The Avenue Lights (5th Avenue, New York City) By. Gerald Harvey Jones (American, 1933-2017) Signed

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20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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"FOUNTAIN STUDY" G. HARVEY (1933-2017) TEXAS ARTIST
"FOUNTAIN STUDY" G. HARVEY (1933-2017) TEXAS ARTIST

G. Harvey"FOUNTAIN STUDY" G. HARVEY (1933-2017) TEXAS ARTIST, 1982

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H 11 in W 5 in D 3 in

"FOUNTAIN STUDY" G. HARVEY (1933-2017) TEXAS ARTIST

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

" THOSE THAT PLUNDER " G. HARVEY BRONZE SCULPTURE BANDITS

G. Harvey" THOSE THAT PLUNDER " G. HARVEY BRONZE SCULPTURE BANDITS, 1977

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H 16 in W 18 in D 10 in

" THOSE THAT PLUNDER " G. HARVEY BRONZE SCULPTURE BANDITS

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1970s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"WORKING PAIR" G. HARVEY WESTERN SCENE FRAMED SIZE 33 X 43
"WORKING PAIR" G. HARVEY WESTERN SCENE FRAMED SIZE 33 X 43

G. Harvey"WORKING PAIR" G. HARVEY WESTERN SCENE FRAMED SIZE 33 X 43, 1975

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H 20 in W 30 in D 4 in

"WORKING PAIR" G. HARVEY WESTERN SCENE FRAMED SIZE 33 X 43

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"THINKING OF HOME" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW
"THINKING OF HOME" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW

G. Harvey"THINKING OF HOME" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW, 1971

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H 29 in W 40 in D 3 in

"THINKING OF HOME" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'EARLY TO RISE" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW
'EARLY TO RISE" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW

G. Harvey'EARLY TO RISE" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW, 1971

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H 32 in W 38 in D 3 in

'EARLY TO RISE" TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE COWBOYS HORSES SNOW

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Natures Gift" Painted 1970 Texas Hill Country Bluebonnet
"Natures Gift" Painted 1970 Texas Hill Country Bluebonnet

G. Harvey"Natures Gift" Painted 1970 Texas Hill Country Bluebonnet, 1970

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H 35 in W 41 in D 7 in

"Natures Gift" Painted 1970 Texas Hill Country Bluebonnet

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, Fredericksburg Artist Image Size

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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

''Serene Waters'' Texas Hill Country
''Serene Waters'' Texas Hill Country

G. Harvey''Serene Waters'' Texas Hill Country, Circa 1980

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H 22.5 in W 26.25 in D 3 in

''Serene Waters'' Texas Hill Country

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Summer Haze" Peak at Van Horn Texas Desert Scene
"Summer Haze" Peak at Van Horn Texas Desert Scene

G. Harvey"Summer Haze" Peak at Van Horn Texas Desert Scene, Dated 1971

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H 26.5 in W 22.5 in D 3 in

"Summer Haze" Peak at Van Horn Texas Desert Scene

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"SOUNDS OF THE MORNING SILENCE"
"SOUNDS OF THE MORNING SILENCE"

G. Harvey"SOUNDS OF THE MORNING SILENCE", Circa 1980s

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H 27 in W 31 in D 3 in

"SOUNDS OF THE MORNING SILENCE"

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"THE RED GATE IN BLUE" TEXAS BLUEBONNET PAINTING
"THE RED GATE IN BLUE" TEXAS BLUEBONNET PAINTING

G. Harvey"THE RED GATE IN BLUE" TEXAS BLUEBONNET PAINTING, Dated 1966

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"THE RED GATE IN BLUE" TEXAS BLUEBONNET PAINTING

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"PIONEER CHRISTMAS" OLD WEST TOWN SNOW SCENE
"PIONEER CHRISTMAS" OLD WEST TOWN SNOW SCENE

G. Harvey"PIONEER CHRISTMAS" OLD WEST TOWN SNOW SCENE, Dated 1966

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H 22 in W 27 in D 3 in

"PIONEER CHRISTMAS" OLD WEST TOWN SNOW SCENE

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Cattle Drive" Western Cowboys
"Cattle Drive" Western Cowboys

G. Harvey"Cattle Drive" Western Cowboys

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H 46 in W 58 in D 2 in

"Cattle Drive" Western Cowboys

By G. Harvey

Located in San Antonio, TX

G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

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Gerald Harvey For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact gerald harvey you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. You can easily find an example made in the Impressionist style, while we also have 5 Impressionist versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a gerald harvey may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right gerald harvey for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, blue, brown and black. There have been many interesting gerald harvey examples over the years, but those made by Willard Dixon, G. Harvey, Gerald Harvey Jones, Henry Mayo Bateman and Joellyn Duesberry are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in paint, oil paint and fabric can add an especially memorable touch. If space is limited, you can find a small gerald harvey measuring 17 high and 18 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 84 across to better suit those in the market for a large gerald harvey.

How Much is a Gerald Harvey?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a gerald harvey in our inventory may begin at $650 and can go as high as $250,000, while the average can fetch as much as $10,000.

G. Harvey for sale on 1stDibs

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 Harvey and became the genesis of his art. Known for paintings closely linked in mood and subject matter to Edouard Cortes, G Harvey created romanticized street scenes of the turn of the century towns in America. Rain slick streets reflect urban lights, and the weather, which was obviously cold. Harvey's early interest in sketching and drawing slowly evolved into a passion for painting in oils. After graduating cum laude from North Texas State University, Harvey took a position with the University of Texas in Austin, but he soon realized that weekends and nights at the easel did not satisfy his love of painting. He abandoned the security of a full-time job in 1963 and threw his total energy into a fine art career. It was through painting that he found his greatest satisfaction, and his native central Texas hill country provided the inspiration for most of his earlier work. 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 and the streets of Dallas, which once echoed with the sound of horses hooves and the jingle of spurs. Historic photographs reveal what it looked like, but artists like Harvey can enable a viewer to experience the mood and flavor or the time. In his paintings, the viewer only sees the physical elements of his subject but also senses the mood that surrounds them. It is a remarkable aspect of fine art, which few artists are able to master.

Harvey painted the spirit of America from its western hills and prairies to the commerce of its great cities. His original paintings and bronze sculptures are in the collections of major corporations, prestigious museums, the United States government, American presidents, governors, foreign leaders and captains of industry. The Smithsonian Institution chose Harvey to paint The Smithsonian Dream, commemorating its 150th Anniversary. The Christmas Pageant of Peace commissioned Harvey to create a painting celebrating this national event. He has been the recipient of many awards and the subject of three books. Harvey was a soft-spoken and unassuming man who cared deeply about what he painted without becoming maudlin or melodramatic. Before his death, Harvey lived in Fredericksburg, Texas, with his wife Pat in a 150-year old stone home built by German settlers. His studio and residence were nestled within the Historic District of Fredericksburg.

A Close Look at Impressionist Art

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Finding the Right Paintings for You

Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.

When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.

Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.

Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.

Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color? 

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