Impressionist Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
Artist: Hayley Lever
Australian-American painter, Hayley Lever, "Astors" Floral Still Life Painting
By Hayley Lever
Located in Rockport, MA
Wonderful Hayley Lever, still life floral titled "Astors." 16"x20" does not include frame.
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever; on stretcher bar: 1876–Hayley Lever–1958 / RWA R.A. NA
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Landscape
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Train Station in Snow
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Hayley Lever
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Harbor Scene
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil marine harbor scene painting by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at the Adelaide...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
At Larchmont
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil marine sailing painting by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at the Adelaide’s Pri...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Concarneau, Brittany, France" Hayley Lever, American Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Concarneau, Brittany, France, 1905
Oil on panel
6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Signed by the artist lower left
Inscribed by another hand on the reverse
Provenance:
Clayton-Liberatore Galleries, Bridgehampton, New York
Hayley Lever’s (1875-1958) versatility has worked against his posthumous reputation. He was never associated with a single artistic movement, instead producing impressionist, post-impressionist, and expressionist works. While best known as a painter of post-impressionist marine scenes, his subject matter included landscapes, urban scenes, and still lifes across his 60-year career. This lack of a singular style or subject has given him an amorphous place in U.S. art history despite his obvious accomplishments.
[Richard] Hayley Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia in 1875. He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College (1883-91) and Norwood Art School (1891-93) in Adelaide. In the 1890s, Lever moved to England, studying art in London and painting at St. Ives, a fishing port and popular artistic colony on the Cornish coast. In St. Ives, Lever shared a studio with Frederick Waugh, and studied painting with Albert Julius Olsson and Algernon Talmage.
Lever was a plein air painter particularly interested in the effect of sunlight on the sea. He painted in a distinctive style, strongly influenced by the works of Vincent van Gogh, that might now be called post-impressionism. He used a limited palette to paint the St. Ives harbor, particularly at dusk or in the moonlight. His strong contrasting colors and thick use of paint created a crisp and physical surface that earned him acclaim in Europe. Lever’s many St. Ives seascapes are among his most popular works. In 2017, his painting entitled “The Old Lighthouse and Fleets of St. Ives” sold at auction for $162,500.
In 1912, Lever moved to New York to test the art market in the United States. In Manhattan, Lever met prominent U.S. painters such as Ernest Lawson, Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan, and George Bellows. Lever exhibited with this group regularly in New York City, painting parks, streets, bridges and the Manhattan waterfront. However, he soon discovered the scenic potential of Gloucester, Rockport, and Marblehead in the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Moon Rise
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever; on verso: Moon Rise / Brittany / FRANCE / Hayley Lever
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset Boats
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil painting with boats at sunset by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Austr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"St Ives From the Quay Cornwall England"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by Hayley Lever (1875 – 1958)
Born in Adelaide, Australia in 1875, Richard Hayley Lever was best known for his paintings that sy...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cornwall, England
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: Hayley Lever / 1905
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mount Vernon N.Y. (Train on the Railroad)" Impressionist Landscape Oil on Board
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
An outstanding oil painting executed with thick use of paint capturing a luminous sight of a train in motion under a bridge with heavy smoke trailing upward. We can feel that a mood...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Canal Locks, Devon, England" Oil on Canvas Impressionist Landscape Painting
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
An outstanding oil painting executed with thick use of paint capturing a luminous sight of the Locks at Devon England with the speckling water glistening...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Boats in the Harbor"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Original Period Frame
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of his native Australia to those of England, and then the United S...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"St. Ives, Cornwall, England"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Born in Adelaide, Australia, Hayley Lever was known for his town-shore landscapes and still-life painting in a style that combined impressionism with vivid colors and strong lines of...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"City Scene"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed and dated March 1943 lower right.
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from th...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"The Floor We Live in"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed and dated lower right.
Hayley Lever (1876-1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Farm House with Barn"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left.
Hayley Lever (1876-1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of his native ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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