Jack Terry, High Sierra Haze, Large Canvas Giclee (10/29/2007)

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Jack Terry, High Sierra Haze, Large Canvas Giclee

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Sold Date: 10/29/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

High Sierra Haze

By: Jack Terry

Giclee print on canvas

The image size is: 24"x30"

This giclee canvas print was limited to an edition size of: 1000

Signed by Giclee Master

Certification of edition affixed by publisher

Publisher: International Galleries Inc.

Condition: New, never framed, stored flat

This canvas giclee print will be shipped rolled in a tube.

Jack Terry:

Jack's maternal grandfather was a rancher and a cowboy who rode on some of the last great cattle drives out West. His paternal grandmother was a painter who vividly captured the people and landmarks of Texas. From his earliest childhood days, Jack Terry found himself immersed in the worlds of both cowboys and canvases. And from the age of three, he worked to perfect the talent that has made him one of America's most honored Western artists.

Young Jack was just a toddler when he began drawing side-by-side with his grandmother while she painted. By the time he was nine, he had developed his own special style. "I did a still life of an old cow skull, a boot of my grandfather's, and a Mexican serape, and entered it in the Scurry County Fair. I won a blue ribbon on it!" That became the first of more than 130 awards Jack Terry won by the age of 16 for his still lifes, landscapes and Western art.

Meanwhile Terry spent time with the ranchers and cowboys from his grandfather's world, a habit he kept up throughout his formative years. Even after graduating from the University of Texas in Austin, he took every opportunity to do day-work on various ranches in search of inspiration and new subject matter. While in college, Terry majored in journalism and minored in art. By the time he earned his degree, he already had paintings displayed in galleries throughout Texas.

Terry's big break came at age 26 when he was named bicentennial Artist in Texas. That led to a one-man exhibit in the Texas Rotunda, and a commission to paint the late President Lyndon B. Johnson for publication on the Texas Bicentennial Calendar.

Many of Terry's paintings are inspired by the places he has visited and people he has met. "A lot of my subjects are friends as well as various ranches that friends own. I still like to go out and ride and work cattle. We go on trail drives and round-ups, which provide the perfect opportunity to take lots of pictures. Then I paint my favorite scenes and feature my friends."

One of Terry's admirers, six-time PRCA World Champion cowboy Larry Mahan is among those passionate collectors. As he says, "Terry captures the West the way it was and the way it should be. He is one of the finest artists of our day and a pretty good cowhand to boot. His horses, cowboys and landscapes are as good as it gets."

Today, Jack and Mary Terry reside in Georgetown, Texas. Jack spends as much time as possible at his 250-acre ranch - which Terry calls his "little piece of heaven" - just north Georgetown, w they raise cattle, horses and exotic deer. A hard-working artist as well as part-time rancher, Terry has his morning chores done daily before 8:00 or 8:30 a.m., when he sits down to work in his studio.

About the print:

This art is a limited edition "g iclee" (pronounced ghee-clay) print. A "giclee" print is a high-resolution digital print that is created by a series of tiny jets spraying millions of droplets of printing ink onto the highest quality archival artists' canvas. The spray generates more than four million droplets of ink per second; hence, the name "giclee", which is French for "fine spray." A precise computer control panel insures consistency of hue, value, and density. "Giclees" are of such phenomenal quality that even some art experts have difficulty telling a "giclee" from an original. This fact has prompted museums and collectors to substitute "giclees" for originals, tby safeguarding priceless works in vaults. Since the "giclee" process produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (...