Gary Ernest Smith Paintings

Framed Gary Ernest Flower Garden Painting. This painting features a garden of green bushes and yellow flowers with a red ground below them. In the back is more shrubbery and a field with green trees scattered throughout the background. In the top right corner is a fence. A woman and a female child stand on the right side of the flower garden. The woman looks at the child, who is looking at the observer. The little girl is wearing a sunhat.

Gary Ernest Smith was born on a cattle ranch in Oregon, and taught at a university while acting as gallery director of their art collection. He served for two years as an illustrator in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, and has been a self-employed full-time artist since 1972. Smith's subject matter has evolved with focuses on the figurative and domestic, the hand of man on the landscape, and the simple beauty of landscape in the rural West. His work has been collected by museums and art collectors internationally.

The Smith paintings were donated to U of M Crookston by Mary Jo Eastes, a 2009 Outstanding Alumni recipient and 2015 Torch and Shield Award recipient. Eastes and her husband, Rick, reside in Visalia, Calif. and are avid art collectors.

Flower Garden

This painting features a garden of green bushes and yellow flowers with a red ground below them. In the back is more shrubbery and a field with green trees scattered throughout the background. In the top right corner is a fence. A woman and a female child stand on the right side of the flower garden. The woman looks at the child, who is looking at the observer. The little girl is wearing a sunhat.

Wheat Harvest

This painting features a man with a brown hat on, a blue button-up work shirt, and work pants carrying piles of wheat in his gloved hands. Behind him is more wheat shooting up like trees. The background is an ombre effect, going from black, to red, and to orange.

Agriculture

This painting features two farmers conversing in the middle of rows of crops. The crops are short, green, and bushy. The sky is blue with a few orange-y clouds. A small town can be seen in the distance with houses, barns, and more.