A Basket of Plums
by Levi Wells Prentice (1851–1935)8 x 9⅞ inches
Signed lower right: L.W.Prentice
Information
Provenance
The artist
Estate of above
Imogene Prentice, daughter of above
Private collection, gift of above
Sale, Christie's, New York, New York, September 22, 1993, lot 14, from above
Private collection, New York, New York
Related Work
Still Life with Plums, ca. 1899, oil on canvas, 11½ x 17½ inches, signed lower right: L.W.Prentice.; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
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)
