Family Line
Drawings and Paintings by Anne Harvey, Jason Harvey, Steven Harvey
About the Artists »
The New York Studio School is proud to present Family Line: Drawings and Paintings by Anne Harvey, Jason Harvey, Steven Harvey. This highly original and distinctive group exhibition showcases three members of a remarkable family of American artists. This first joint exhibition of siblings Anne and Jason Harvey, and Jason's ...
Essay by Steven Harvey »
In the early seventies, my father, Jason Harvey (1919-1982) and I had regular "sessions" where we drew and painted each other. Jason commented that my drawings made him look like he was "on fire"-which was not altogether untrue. With deep furrows in his brow, a thatch of sandy brown hair ...
Essay by Henry Lessore »
The public figure, toughened by exposure to life's bumps and bruises, knowing everyone and whom everyone knows, acquires a protective covering. In the end, what the public knows is only a surface. The private person, on the other hand, remains without such a shell. Anne Harvey was a private person. To know her, one had to meet her through her family and friends.
Essay by David Shapiro »
Perhaps the best image of the human mind is the human body.-Ludwig WittgensteinThe body is the place of promise, an image of hope, and its mortal fate has a bright shadow: immortality and Paradise. This meditation is intimately bound up, it seems to me, with one of art's most insistent ...
Essay by Jennifer Samet »
"The pictures have told me today that my home is in the making," Jason Harvey (1919-1982) stated in a journal entry. His artwork functioned as a way to explore and solidify his relationships with people and places. A sense of personal investigation is suspended within quietly nuanced and balanced compositions. ...