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ILLUSION OF KNOWLEDGE

48″ x 48″ acrylic and charcoal on canvas $2500

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ALAN TAYLOR JEFFRIES BIOGRAPHY

An Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, Alan Taylor Jeffries currently resides in West Virginia. He is a self-taught abstract/nonrepresentational painter working in both oil and acrylic and was invited to be one of The George Gallery’s original artists. He is also represented by three additional galleries, and his work can be found in private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.

Jeffries says of his work, “Long before I began painting, abstract has always been my favorite style, particularly the work of first-generation Abstract Expressionists like De Kooning and Kline, so it was natural for me to study and emulate their work. A leading critic/art theorist of that time discarded notions that a painting must ‘mean’ something or ‘be’ anything other than gestures and colors on a surface, and that has always been a guiding principle for me. My paintings are simply the application of paint on canvas intended to evoke a purely aesthetic response.”

Sept. 2009—”Emerging Artists” group exhibition, Artworks Around Town, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA Jan. 12-Feb. 25 2012—”Collective Conscious: Unified Planes” group exhibition, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England May 1-July 2 2013–“Dali Through the Window” group exhibition, Gallery J2, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA June 13-June 30 2014 “CONTRAST” group exhibition, The George Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA December 10 2015, group exhibition, Contemporain Bankston/Adams Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

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ARTIFICE

36″ x 36″ oil and marker on canvas $1500

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ALAN TAYLOR JEFFRIES BIOGRAPHY

An Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, Alan Taylor Jeffries currently resides in West Virginia. He is a self-taught abstract/nonrepresentational painter working in both oil and acrylic and was invited to be one of The George Gallery’s original artists. He is also represented by three additional galleries, and his work can be found in private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.

Jeffries says of his work, “Long before I began painting, abstract has always been my favorite style, particularly the work of first-generation Abstract Expressionists like De Kooning and Kline, so it was natural for me to study and emulate their work. A leading critic/art theorist of that time discarded notions that a painting must ‘mean’ something or ‘be’ anything other than gestures and colors on a surface, and that has always been a guiding principle for me. My paintings are simply the application of paint on canvas intended to evoke a purely aesthetic response.”

Sept. 2009—”Emerging Artists” group exhibition, Artworks Around Town, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA Jan. 12-Feb. 25 2012—”Collective Conscious: Unified Planes” group exhibition, Gate Gallery, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England May 1-July 2 2013–“Dali Through the Window” group exhibition, Gallery J2, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA June 13-June 30 2014 “CONTRAST” group exhibition, The George Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, USA December 10 2015, group exhibition, Contemporain Bankston/Adams Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

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NUMBERS 01

39” x 59” acrylic on canvas $6800

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Yvonne Robert Biography

Yvonne Robert, born in 1972, grew up in Germany and has lived in Zurich for several years. Art, other artists, and her environment are all constant sources of inspiration. Robert grew up in a family of artists and found home life aesthetically stimulating and informative. She remembers her parents often discussing the notions of color and form, and she was fascinated by the patterns and motifs of the 1960s that filled her home.

The often bright and gestural paintings of Yvonne Robert result from an intuitive approach to color and composition. Her spontaneity of conception and dynamic gesture is void of complex references and associated meanings. Instead, she is steadfast in her commitment to universal concepts of form, mass, proportion, rhythm, and structure, which constitute a common thread in her work. Above all, she is motivated by color, and her use of it is practiced and studied.

These early influences perhaps motivated Robert to pursue a career initially in graphic design and subsequently in fine art, the origins of which specific motifs in her current work could be traced. Importantly, however, when Robert observes her environment, she perceives color first and foremost – a person’s hair in combination with the color of their skin and their scarf, an old bike that someone has painted in a creamy light grey with a new brown leather seat; sheep in the pastures, the lake, the sky, the mountains; how different the shades of blue are that interplay with each other in the sky, and how endless the combinations seem.

Robert has exhibited internationally in New York, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin and Zurich. Her work is held in private collections in the US, Spain, UK, France, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

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FKK

47” x 39” acrylic on canvas $5800

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Yvonne Robert Biography

Yvonne Robert, born in 1972, grew up in Germany and has lived in Zurich for several years. Art, other artists, and her environment are all constant sources of inspiration. Robert grew up in a family of artists and found home life aesthetically stimulating and informative. She remembers her parents often discussing the notions of color and form, and she was fascinated by the patterns and motifs of the 1960s that filled her home.

The often bright and gestural paintings of Yvonne Robert result from an intuitive approach to color and composition. Her spontaneity of conception and dynamic gesture is void of complex references and associated meanings. Instead, she is steadfast in her commitment to universal concepts of form, mass, proportion, rhythm, and structure, which constitute a common thread in her work. Above all, she is motivated by color, and her use of it is practiced and studied.

These early influences perhaps motivated Robert to pursue a career initially in graphic design and subsequently in fine art, the origins of which specific motifs in her current work could be traced. Importantly, however, when Robert observes her environment, she perceives color first and foremost – a person’s hair in combination with the color of their skin and their scarf, an old bike that someone has painted in a creamy light grey with a new brown leather seat; sheep in the pastures, the lake, the sky, the mountains; how different the shades of blue are that interplay with each other in the sky, and how endless the combinations seem.

Robert has exhibited internationally in New York, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin and Zurich. Her work is held in private collections in the US, Spain, UK, France, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

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NEW WORK 02

15.75″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas $1900

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Yvonne Robert Biography

Yvonne Robert, born in 1972, grew up in Germany and has lived in Zurich for several years. Art, other artists, and her environment are all constant sources of inspiration. Robert grew up in a family of artists and found home life aesthetically stimulating and informative. She remembers her parents often discussing the notions of color and form, and she was fascinated by the patterns and motifs of the 1960s that filled her home.

The often bright and gestural paintings of Yvonne Robert result from an intuitive approach to color and composition. Her spontaneity of conception and dynamic gesture is void of complex references and associated meanings. Instead, she is steadfast in her commitment to universal concepts of form, mass, proportion, rhythm, and structure, which constitute a common thread in her work. Above all, she is motivated by color, and her use of it is practiced and studied.

These early influences perhaps motivated Robert to pursue a career initially in graphic design and subsequently in fine art, the origins of which specific motifs in her current work could be traced. Importantly, however, when Robert observes her environment, she perceives color first and foremost – a person’s hair in combination with the color of their skin and their scarf, an old bike that someone has painted in a creamy light grey with a new brown leather seat; sheep in the pastures, the lake, the sky, the mountains; how different the shades of blue are that interplay with each other in the sky, and how endless the combinations seem.

Robert has exhibited internationally in New York, Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Berlin and Zurich. Her work is held in private collections in the US, Spain, UK, France, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

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WITCHES CASTLE

28″ x 22″ framed, 23.75″ x 18″ unframed, acrylic and oil pastel on paper $8300 c. May 1985

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WILLIAM HALSEY BIOGRAPHY

William Halsey (1915-1999) broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of Charleston’s early twentieth-century artistic renaissance, Halsey’s first art lessons were with one of that movement’s leaders, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner.  Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe there. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the institution’s highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change of plans. The couple set sail for Mexico instead, an experience that ignited a lifelong passion for travel. In Mexico City, Halsey absorbed the country’s culture, color, and texture.

Halsey returned to the American South in 1941 and settled permanently in Charleston in 1945, convinced he “could be vastly more useful in [his] native state than any place else.” He touched countless students as a teacher at the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Charleston School of Art, and as the founder of the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. During his more than forty years as an educator and mentor, he was also represented by a gallery in New York City and exhibited his increasingly Abstract Expressionist paintings, collages, and sculpture throughout the country. Although Halsey departed from “the prevailing influence of the Old Charleston picturesque,” he credited his hometown as a source of inspiration: the decaying stucco buildings literally showed up in his work. He painted “furiously” on canvases built up with gesso, sand, marble dust, found objects, and fabric. Though he prized color above all else, he also appreciated the physical act of painting and often laid a picture flat on the ground in order to free his movements.

During his lifetime, Halsey’s works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.

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UNTITLED – RED AND GREEN

17.25″ x 24.25″ incised oil on panel $15,500 c. Feb. 1979

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WILLIAM HALSEY BIOGRAPHY

William Halsey (1915-1999) broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of Charleston’s early twentieth-century artistic renaissance, Halsey’s first art lessons were with one of that movement’s leaders, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner.  Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe there. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the institution’s highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change of plans. The couple set sail for Mexico instead, an experience that ignited a lifelong passion for travel. In Mexico City, Halsey absorbed the country’s culture, color, and texture.

Halsey returned to the American South in 1941 and settled permanently in Charleston in 1945, convinced he “could be vastly more useful in [his] native state than any place else.” He touched countless students as a teacher at the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Charleston School of Art, and as the founder of the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. During his more than forty years as an educator and mentor, he was also represented by a gallery in New York City and exhibited his increasingly Abstract Expressionist paintings, collages, and sculpture throughout the country. Although Halsey departed from “the prevailing influence of the Old Charleston picturesque,” he credited his hometown as a source of inspiration: the decaying stucco buildings literally showed up in his work. He painted “furiously” on canvases built up with gesso, sand, marble dust, found objects, and fabric. Though he prized color above all else, he also appreciated the physical act of painting and often laid a picture flat on the ground in order to free his movements.

During his lifetime, Halsey’s works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.

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UNTITLED – RED COLLAGE

17″ x 23.75″ mixed media collage on panel SOLD c. December 1984

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WILLIAM HALSEY BIOGRAPHY

William Halsey (1915-1999) broke away from the conventions of most local painters to become a pioneer of modern art in the South. As a boy growing up during the heyday of Charleston’s early twentieth-century artistic renaissance, Halsey’s first art lessons were with one of that movement’s leaders, Elizabeth O’Neill Verner.  Following two years at the University of South Carolina, Halsey pursued further artistic training at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He studied traditional line drawing with Alexander Iacovleff and color theory with Karl Zerbe there. In 1939, Halsey was awarded the institution’s highest honor, the James William Paige Fellowship, for study abroad. Originally scheduled to travel to Europe with his new wife, fellow artist Corrie McCallum, the onset of World War II necessitated a change of plans. The couple set sail for Mexico instead, an experience that ignited a lifelong passion for travel. In Mexico City, Halsey absorbed the country’s culture, color, and texture.

Halsey returned to the American South in 1941 and settled permanently in Charleston in 1945, convinced he “could be vastly more useful in [his] native state than any place else.” He touched countless students as a teacher at the Gibbes Art Gallery, the Charleston School of Art, and as the founder of the Studio Art Department at the College of Charleston. During his more than forty years as an educator and mentor, he was also represented by a gallery in New York City and exhibited his increasingly Abstract Expressionist paintings, collages, and sculpture throughout the country. Although Halsey departed from “the prevailing influence of the Old Charleston picturesque,” he credited his hometown as a source of inspiration: the decaying stucco buildings literally showed up in his work. He painted “furiously” on canvases built up with gesso, sand, marble dust, found objects, and fabric. Though he prized color above all else, he also appreciated the physical act of painting and often laid a picture flat on the ground in order to free his movements.

During his lifetime, Halsey’s works were included in exhibitions at such noted institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and National Academy of Design. He is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibbes Museum of Art, and Greenville County Museum of Art.

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