Details
Description
"Dawn Over the Mesa" Unframed original acrylic painting on canvas by Jessie Benton Evans Gray. Hand signed by the artist, …
Read more
"Dawn Over the Mesa" Unframed original acrylic painting on canvas by Jessie Benton Evans Gray. Hand signed by the artist, bottom right corner. Canvas Size: 51" x 66" Condition of the painting is Great. The edges are a little worn/dirty from age. 100 percent guarantee of authenticity. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Circa mid 1980s. Make an offer!
BIO:
Jessie Benton Evans Gray is the great-granddaughter of Jessie Benton Evans, a prominent Southwestern artist, and has been painting since she was four years old.
In her landscapes Jessie creates a feeling of awe, of excitement, with her bold brushwork and her vibrant colors. "I respond to what 'looks right' intuitively -- a certain connection or energy between the sky and the earth, a dynamic interplay of forms," she describes. "I rarely think of compositional rules."
Jessie describes herself as a "natureholic." "I feel a spiritual presence in nature," she says. "Immense beauty is always there, even as the backdrop for the starkest of realities -- life and death, played out within it. I try to see it as some God-inspired universal mechanism beyond my comprehension."
Jessie paints outside, on canvases that are often 8-feet wide. "I paint from life," she states, "because the drama of air, sky, earth, wind, smell, sound, and total reality is always so original, alive, and extra-dimensional that its immediacy forces me into discovery and unexpected images that go far beyond what anyone could ever dream up in a studio. I physically feel the forms I paint."
See less
- Dimensions
- 66ʺW × 2ʺD × 51ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Art Subjects
- Landscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- 1980s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Acrylic Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Yellow
- Condition Notes
- Great. The edges are a little worn/dirty from age. Great. The edges are a little worn/dirty from age. less
Questions about the item?
Related Collections
- 1800s Oil Paintings
- Abstract Sailboat Paintings
- Abstract Horse Paintings
- Abstract Nude Paintings
- Abstract Acrylic Paintings
- Abstract Vase Paintings
- Abstract Autumn Paintings
- Styrofoam Paintings
- Chinese Glass Paintings
- Chinese Silk Paintings
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paintings
- Irving Amen Paintings
- Byzantine Paintings
- Classical Greek Paintings
- Abstract Apple Paintings
- Brass Finish Paintings
- Molly Frances Paintings
- Black Abstract Paintings
- Daylight Dream Editions Paintings
- Classical Roman Paintings
- Angel Oil Paintings
- Associated American Artists Paintings
- Abstract Palm Tree Paintings
- Lee Reynolds Paintings
- Mid-Century Modern Paintings