Etching, signed in pencil, printed in black ink on thin, fine-grained, cream wove paper, 0.2 – 0.4 inches margins, ed 20. Catalog raisonne’ reference: Clayton-Liberatore 54. With the original Clayton-Liberatore Gallery label. Very good condition overall, unobtrusive diagonal crease, two top corners trimmed. Free shipping to US address.
NotesAustralian-born artist Richard Haley Lever (1875-1958) moved to England in 1899 to further his young career in painting, settling in the fishing port and artists’ colony of St. Ives on the Cornish Coast. The town’s reputation as a center of British marine painting attracted many prominent artists, including Frederick Judd Waugh, with whom Lever shared a studio (see Lot 49, Attributed to Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940): #4 Bold Headland). Lever’s paintings of the fishing port and seascape around St. Ives show the influence of the Impressionists and other British painters working in the village.
In 1911, Lever was persuaded by artist Ernest Lawson to move to America to pursue greater success as an artist. Lever painted in and around New York City, as well as on the New England coast. He and Lawson developed a similar, spontaneous style of painting and exhibited together with Robert Henri, William Glackens and John Sloan. Lever eventually moved to Massachusetts and painted up and down the coast, often visiting and painting in the harbors of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Following in the footsteps of the 19th Century Impressionists, Lever said that he was trying to recreate a mood in form and color.
By 1930, Lever had moved to New Jersey, but continued to travel and paint coastline views from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas. He died at home in Mt. Vernon, New York in 1958, leaving a large cache of unknown paintings in his barn. Haley Lever is considered one of the leaders of American Impressionism. (source: STAIR Auctioneers)
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