TitleHayley Lever
Artist
Raymond Perry Rodgers Neilson
(1881-1964)
Date1938
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 36 × 30 1/8 in.
SignedSigned on upper left: "Raymond P. R. Neilson 38"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of the estate of Raymond P.R. Neilson, 1964
Object number1652-P
Label TextThe estate of Raymond P.R. Neilson donated two portraits of Lever to the NAD in 1964. The smaller of the two, with Lever holding a palette, was the given to the Art Students League. An unidentified clipping in NAD archives states that a "portrait Mr. Neilson did of Hayley Lever also of the NAD won a $100 prize as an outstanding work of art at an exhibition of the Allied Artists of America in 1942."
