Spring Landscape

Provenance

Spanierman Gallery, New York

Sale, Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York, December 3, 2014, Lot 69

Exhibited

Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, New York, Hayley Lever (1876-1958), Feb. 20- Apr. 5, 2003.

Literature

Carol Lowrey, Hayley Lever (1876-1958), exh. cat. (New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2003), pp. 22, 87 color illus., cat. 32

Related Works

Mid-Summer, Woodstock, 1924, oil on canvas, 12 × 15 ⅞ inches, signed and dated lower left: Hayley Lever / 1924; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware

Summer Street, ca. 1936, oil on board, 24 x 36⅛ inches, signed lower right: Hayley Lever; Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Note

Spring Landscape demonstrates Lever’s stylistic range with its Van Gogh-inspired expressionistic rendering of the countryside, linking him with the rural subject and almost magical depictions of realism of American scene painting of the 1930s. The Australian-born artist earned many awards, including a Gold Medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1914), Silver Medal at the National Arts Club and the Sesnan Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1917). He taught landscape painting at New York’s Art Students League from 1919 to 1931 and was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1933.[1]

[1] H.V. Allison Galleries, Jane Peterson (1876-1965), Hayley Lever (1876-1958) (New York: H.V. Allison Galleries, 1990), 11.