House in Woodstock

Provenance

Private collection, Pennsylvania
Sale, Alderfer Auction, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, March 13, 2025, lot 3342

Related Works

Mid-Summer, Woodstock, 1924, oil on canvas, 12 x 15⅞ inches, signed lower left: Hayley Lever;
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Summer Street, ca. 1936, oil on board, signed lower right: Hayley Lever; Nantucket Historical
Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Note

In the early twentieth century, critics hailed Hayley Lever as a talented “pioneering nonconformist who followed his own path, melding an array of advanced stylistic practices in accordance with his inner emotions,” while portraying subject matter that was recognizable and highly appealing to audiences. With support from the Arts Students League, Lever spent the summer of 1922 teaching painting classes in Woodstock, New York where an artists’ colony thrived. Inspired by the beauty he created several landscape paintings of the area.