A Basket of Apples
by Levi Wells Prentice (1851–1935)10⅛ x 12 inches
Signed lower right: L.W.Prentice.
Information
Provenance
The artist
Private collection, gift from above
Private collection, son of above, by descent from above
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, December 4, 2002, lot 135, from above
[With] Eastward-Ho Gallery, Beaufort, South Carolina
Private collection, New York, New York
Related Work
Basket of Apples, 1895, oil on canvas, 22¼ x 18 inches; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Artist Biography
A talented American artist best known for his Adirondack landscapes and detailed still-life paintings.
By Chelsea DeLay
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Levi Wells Prentice was born on December 18, 1851 in Harrisburg, New York, and was raised on a farm in nearby Lewis County. By the 1870s, the Prentice family was living in Syracuse, where the artist began painting the Adirondack Mountains. Later, at the age of twenty-three, Prentice formally declared himself a landscape painter.(1)
