Gayle Levée, Instructor for Learn & Master Painting
Gayle Levée is today's link in an unbroken chain of master-to-student art training lasting over 160 years. It began with and is passed down from Paul Delaroche to Jean-Leon Gerome to William Paxton to Ives Gammell to Robert Douglas Hunter, Gayle's master. Contemporary art historians consider Mr. Hunter to be a golden link in this chain and one of the preeminent artists of the Boston School of Still Life Painting. Gayle now offers this important history and knowledge to Learn & Master Painting Home School Edition students.
Gayle Levée began her art training in Colorado as a child, learning from her mother and grandfather, both of whom were artists. Then she studied painting at the University of Denver, supporting herself during her college years by working for a paint manufacturer and selling her art to galleries.
She moved to Boston in her early twenties and joined the Copley Society of Art where she studied under Robert Douglas Hunter. There she lectured at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, Montserrat College, and at the Boston Museum School. Her art and training under Mr. Hunter is featured in the American Artist Magazine.
Gayle currently resides in Nashville, teaching art classes and painting for galleries across the country. Since 1995 Gayle has been teaching adults on subjects such as color theory, brushwork techniques, and Impressionism, to name a few. She has also taught art to at-risk children through the Tennessee Art League.
Gayle is a member of Oil Painters of America, the Copley Society of Art, and the Tennessee Art League. Gayle is represented by galleries from Tennessee, to Maine, to Massachusetts, and collectors from coast to coast have bought her award-winning work.
