Donny Fonley

Howard's Land / oil on Linen / $16,000             Late Day on Number Three, Graystone Country Club, Alabama / oil on linen / 7,000             Cahaba Fishermen / oil on linen / 4,500               Tom Driving / oil on linen / 4,100                 18th Fairway, Shoal Creek Country Club / oil on linen / 6,200               White Gloves / oil on canvas / SOLD                Scottie in New York / oil on canvas / 3,100                The School Bus / oil on canvas / 12,000 SOLD                Park Corner / oil on canvas / SOLD            Newbury Street / oil on canvas / 5,500               Nationally acclaimed Alabama artist Donny Finley takes as the core of his subject matter the rural American South in which he was raised. But he also draws inspiration from the people and places he has encountered in his travels throughout the United States and abroad. American Artist magazine editor M. Stephen Doherty pointed out in a graceful program article for one of Finley's major shows, the "regional" art he creates transcends any ostensibly specific time and space, becoming universal and powerful as we are personally touched by its humanity and beauty. only briefly do his people and places seem exotic in their evocation of southern culture, and then the sheer talent manifested in his artistic technique helps us empathetically to appropriate and share the artist's own sensibility about his subject matter. Finley has won more than seventy awards and prizes including