Background
Lever, Richard Hayley was born on September 28, 1876 in Adelaide, S. Australia. Son of Albion William and Catherine (Hayley) Lever.
Lever, Richard Hayley was born on September 28, 1876 in Adelaide, S. Australia. Son of Albion William and Catherine (Hayley) Lever.
Educated Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. Studied in Paris, London, New York and Saint Ives, Cornwall, England.
; 1 son, Richard Hayley. Came to the United States, 1912. Art instructor Art Students’ League, New York, since 1920.
Honorary mention, International Exbn., Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1913.
Silver medal, National Arts Club, 1914. Carnegie prize, National Academy, 1914.
Gold medal, San Francisco Exposition, 1915, National Aris Club, 1916. Sesnan gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1917.
Philadelphia Water Color Club prize, 1918.
4th prize, North.A.C., 1922. Temple gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy, 1926. Medal Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum.
Newark Art Club prize, Tercentary Exhibition.
Edwin Palmer marine award of $500, 1936. Bronze medal, Sesquicentennial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Edwin Palmer marine prize of $600, National Academy, 1938. Flower Painting prize, National Arts Club, 1940.
New Rochelle Art assosiation, New York, medal, 1941.
Westchester Arts Craft Award, 1945, 1946, 1952. Honorary mention, International Water Color Exhition, Chicago, 1940. Represented in Sydney and Adelaide galleries, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Corcoran Art Gallery, Fort Worth Museum, Detroit Institute Arts, Des Moines Art Museum, Baltimore Museum, Dallas Museum, Telfair Museum (Savannah), U. Museum (Lincoln, Nebraska), Duncan Phillips Memorial Museum (Washington), Whitney Museum American Art, 1931, in White House, Washington (yacht Mayflower painted for President Coolidge), Saint Louis Art Museum, Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum, Syracuse (New York) Art Museum, National Arts Club, Los Angeles Museum, Duquesne Club Gallery, Pittsburgh, Memphis Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum New York, Perth Amboy (New Jersey) Public Library.
Salt Lake U. Museum, also many private collections.
Member National Arts.
Married Aida Smith Gale, December 28, 1905 (deceased.