Sunset over the City

Provenance

Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, California

Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago, Illinois

Private collection, New Jersey

Sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, New York, June 30, 2021, lot 121, from above

Note

Hayley Lever visited New York for the first time in 1912, describing it as “the most wonderful and delightful city in the world.”_[1] After a return visit in 1913, he finally moved to West 65th Street in 1914.

_[1] Elmer Schofield to Murielle Schofield, December 17, 1912, Walter Elmer Schofield papers, 1885–1974, reel 5043. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.; Quoted in Carol Lowrey, Hayley Lever and the Modern Spirit (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2010), 18.