Attributed to Gerald Harvey, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, , measurements: 36"wx31"h framed, good condition Biography: G. Harvey was an American traditionalist artist whose career spanned five decades with a wide range of collectors from Lyndon B. Johnson to Margaret Thatcher and Texas Governor John Connally. Throughout his early years as an artist, Jones served on the staff of the University of Texas at Austin as a supervisor to the Texas Union of Arts and Crafts.During this time he discovered the great painters of light, in particular, Childe Hassam, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and J.M.W. Turner; he also became interested in the works of Luigi Loir, Jean-Bernart Duvivier and Edouard Cortès. Soon he began to shift from teaching to working on his art, and eventually he became a full-time artist.In 1957, Jones began selling his paintings under the signature G. Harvey Jones.A year later, he shortened it to G. Harvey. Soon thereafter, in 1965 he entered his first major show, the Grand National Exhibition in New York City and was bestowed the New Masters Award by the American Artists Professional League.Although initially a Texas landscape painter, from 1975 – 1985 Jones attempted multiple times to join the Cowboy Artists of America and failed. He began working with the techniques he had learned from studying French boulevard artists Luigi Loir and Eugène Galien-Laloue and their incorporation of illuminating street lights. He began to mix this lighting technique into his own paintings, and was the first American artist to apply them to western art. People began to take notice of Harvey's talent and his work began expanding to other major cities in the U.S.