Adirondack Scene
Type:Painting
Size:8.00" x 12.00" x 3.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Levi Wells Prentice ART FOR SALE
1851 Harrisburgh, New York - 1935 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for: Still life, naive landscape and portrait painting.
Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape. His still lifes... Read full biography
Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape. His still lifes were of two types, either arrangements placed in the landscape or close-ups of fruit growing on trees... Read full biography
Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape. His still lifes were of two types, either arrangements placed in the landscape or close-ups of fruit growing on trees or falling out of baskets. He was raised on a farm from where he painted the mountain landscape of Lewis County and also painted in the vicinity of Buffalo and Syracuse. In 1883, he moved to Brooklyn,... Read full biography
Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape. His still lifes were of two types, either arrangements placed in the landscape or close-ups of fruit growing on trees or falling out of baskets. He was raised on a farm from where he painted the mountain landscape of Lewis County and also painted in the vicinity of Buffalo and Syracuse. In 1883, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a carpenter, frame- maker, and art teacher and also began painting still lifes objects, something that by 1894, he focused on exclusively, especially highly polished and well defined apples. He left Brooklyn in 1903, and... Read full biography
Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape. His still lifes were of two types, either arrangements placed in the landscape or close-ups of fruit growing on trees or falling out of baskets. He was raised on a farm from where he painted the mountain landscape of Lewis County and also painted in the vicinity of Buffalo and Syracuse. In 1883, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a carpenter, frame- maker, and art teacher and also began painting still lifes objects, something that by 1894, he focused on exclusively, especially highly polished and well defined apples. He left Brooklyn in 1903, and from that time, little is known except that his obituary was in the Philadelphia newspapers in 1935.... Read full biography
Levi Wells Prentice - Art for Sale (2 available)
Portrait of Mary Wesley Wagoner
Type:Painting
Year:1920
Size:29.75" x 26.72" x 2.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
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