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About The Artist: George W. Harvey

There are occasions when just one painting can establish the greatness of an artist in the collector’s mind. Over the years of looking at hundreds, if not thousands, of works by Cape Ann artists, I had seen the occasional modest watercolor or etching by Cape Ann native-born G. W. Harvey and was unimpressed. There was an authenticity about them, but there didn’t seem to be the skill arising from disciplined study that I associate with...