Gertrude Mary Coventry

Steam Drifter, oil on canvas, Marine, Scottish colourist style, Gertrude Coventry

20th Century

Sighned lower left and titled verso, 1988. Gallery certificate of authenticity comes with the artwork.

A fine impressionist coastal painting of the New Jersey coast by Australian / American artist Heyley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia, and studied at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College and attended James Ashton’s Academy of Art. He traveled and studied in England, eventually exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.Lever moved to New York around 1910, painting scenes of the city. He summered in Gloucester, MA, where he painted and taught sketching and painting classes at his summer studio. He became well known for his post-impressionist marine and landscape paintings. Lever’s works hang in several museums/institutions, including: The White House, Yale University Art Gallery, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit Institute of Art, Colby College, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, artist placard, title and date inscribed on verso “Coast of New Jersey below Asbury Park...

A fine impressionist painting of a Venetian canal by American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, MA and later beca...