"Shoes" - Late 20th Century City Figure Painting by Donny Finley, Framed

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In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at … Read more In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at prestigious Bryant Galleries on Royal Street in New Orleans (with locations also in Jackson, Mississippi, and Nashville I believe.) He painted scenes from all over, and I can't identify the locale of this one. It's a colorful, picturesque scene that is almost surely based on something real: a group of women searching a pile of donated or rejected shoes to see if they can find a pair that fits. Despite their apparent poverty, the women have a nobility about them. Judging from the artist's work, which typically doesn't include social statements, I think this is less a statement about poverty than simply an opportunity to capture a vivid, evocative local scene, though naturally there is a certain poignancy about it. It's beautifully painted in oil on panel. Expensively framed with a burl bevel. Framed 19" x 15", image size 12" x 8.5".
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