Richard Hayley Lever

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Hayley Lever began his paintings of busy harbors at St. Yves, Cornwall, during the 1890s while studying in London. During his St. Yves period, he studied figures two winters in Paris. He became well-established as an American painter only a few years after his arrival in this country in 1911. He was awarded the Carnegie prize at the 1914 Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. His summers were spent in Gloucester, Massachusetts, the second residence of many other artists in the early twentieth century. Between 1919 and 1931, he taught life and still life at the Art Students' League. In 1930, he settled in Caldwell, NJ then moved in 1940 to mount Vernon, NY where he painted industrialized landscapes.