Tractor

High quality, archival print of an original painting by Jerry Troxell "Tractor" title was given by gallery owner, as Jerry often did not title his paintings. *Jerry’s paintings have been reproduced with permission from the collectors.   Jerry Lynn Troxell was born September 24, 1944 on a farm near Sabetha, Kansas. Growing up on a farm with four sisters was the “single most important influence” to his painting. His childhood outdoors gave him a deep appreciation for sunlight, shadows, and seasons. As Jerry explained in a 1995 artist statement: “I am still entranced by the bittersweet feeling of dusk as the bight, bleached landscape is replaced by shards of oranges and pinks - punctuated by slices of violet. A temperature somewhere between warm and cool replaces the daytime heat, and the cacophony of day is replaced by evening sounds and the regrouping of the family. I feel a strong kinship to the exquisite randomness of nature and the ways it is pulled together by light and shadows to c