Still Life: Turnip and Carrots
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever
Description
As an integral part of the New York arts community, Lever was cognizant and receptive to the modernist art movements sweeping the country, from Post-Impressionism to Cubism. Arguably, shades of both can be seen in Still Life: Turnip and Carrots. The flattened perspective of the plated vegetables and table on which they precariously sit recalls the still lifes of Paul Cezanne, whose work Lever would have seen in Europe and in galleries closer to home.
Provenance
Collection, Fairfield, Maine
With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 34424, August 2005
To private collection, Andover, Massachusetts, October 2009 to present
Inscriptions
(verso of watercolor board, from which paper was removed) Turnip + Carrots
Labels
Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 34424
Exhibitions
(possibly) Hayley Lever (1876-1958): Works in Various Media, Delaware Art Museum, June 23 – August 13, 1978, no. 54 Still Life: Turnips and Carrots
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently removed from the old watercolor board. The back has a few very tiny dots and very minor residual toning along the edges. It is framed with museum glass.
Frame Details
Description
As an integral part of the New York arts community, Lever was cognizant and receptive to the modernist art movements sweeping the country, from Post-Impressionism to Cubism. Arguably, shades of both can be seen in Still Life: Turnip and Carrots. The flattened perspective of the plated vegetables and table on which they precariously sit recalls the still lifes of Paul Cezanne, whose work Lever would have seen in Europe and in galleries closer to home.
Provenance
Collection, Fairfield, Maine
With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 34424, August 2005
To private collection, Andover, Massachusetts, October 2009 to present
Inscriptions
(verso of watercolor board, from which paper was removed) Turnip + Carrots
Labels
Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 34424
Exhibitions
(possibly) Hayley Lever (1876-1958): Works in Various Media, Delaware Art Museum, June 23 – August 13, 1978, no. 54 Still Life: Turnips and Carrots
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently removed from the old watercolor board. The back has a few very tiny dots and very minor residual toning along the edges. It is framed with museum glass.
