Download or read book Holding Ground written by Donald J. Hagerty and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Gary Ernest Smith speaks for landscapes and cultures rarely, if ever, spoken for in contemporary American art. A concept of place and of the people who inhabit particular places loom large in Smith's vision. The art of Gary Ernest Smith celebrates what we once had; it is a lament for vanishing places and farm-based culture. First and foremost, Smith is a painter and sculptor of rural subjects.