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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
Located in Rockport, MA
Wonderful Hayley Lever, still life floral titled "Astors." 16"x20" does not include frame.
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever; on stretcher bar: 1876–Hayley Lever–1958 / RWA R.A. NA
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Train Station in Snow
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left: Hayley Lever
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Harbor Scene
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...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Board

At Larchmont
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...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

"Concarneau, Brittany, France" Hayley Lever, American Impressionism
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...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Moon Rise
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever; on verso: Moon Rise / Brittany / FRANCE / Hayley Lever
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

'Fenway Park, Boston' — c. 1920 watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Fenway Park, Boston', watercolor, c. 1920. Signed and titled in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous work, with fresh, undiminished colors...
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1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Sunset Boats
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...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hyde Park, England, 1904
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Hyde Park, London, England, 1904', watercolor, 1904. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated in pencil, in the bottom left margin....
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

St. Astruell, England — 1910 watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

East Gloucester, Massachusetts — 1930's watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'East Gloucester, Massachusetts', watercolor, c. 1930. Signed 'HL' in pencil, lower left. A fine, spontaneous watercolor, with fresh, undiminished colors, on off-white w...
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park
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...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England, 1905
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
An early 20th-century Hayley Lever watercolor depicting fishing boats docked at the St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England. A fine, spontaneous rendering on watercolor paper, in the orig...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

After the Storm — Turn-of-the Century Impressionist Watercolor, Coastal Brittany
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hayley Lever, 'After the Storm' (gallery title), also 'Sunny Afternoon', watercolor on watercolor paper, the full sheet, the image extending to the sheet edges; in very good conditio...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"St Ives From the Quay Cornwall England"
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...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass' — 1920s New England Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever 'Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass.', watercolor, c. 1925. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled in pencil, verso. A fine, spontaneous watercolor, with fresh color...
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1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Cornwall, England
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: Hayley Lever / 1905
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

St. Austrell, Cornwall, England
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A turn of the century view of the town of St. Austrell, Cornwall, in the morning mist of southern England. A beautifully subtle work, in muted earth tones, on buff wove drawing paper...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Mount Vernon N.Y. (Train on the Railroad)" Impressionist Landscape Oil on Board
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...
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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Board, Oil

"Canal Locks, Devon, England" Oil on Canvas Impressionist Landscape Painting
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 Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Boats in the Harbor"
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...
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"St. Ives in the Evening"
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 ...
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1910s Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"St. Ives, Cornwall, England"
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 Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"City Scene"
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...
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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Board, Oil

"The Floor We Live in"
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 ...
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1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Farm House with Barn"
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 Art

Materials

Board, Oil

"USA Battleships, Hudson River NY"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed LR 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 stro...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil Pastel

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