biography of Edward Chalmers LEAVITT (1842-1904)

Birth place: Providence, RI

Addresses: Providence, RI

Profession: Painter

Exhibited: NAD, 1877-86; Boston AC, 1877-96; PAFA Ann., 1881, 1883

Comments: After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, this Providence artist became a very successful painter of realist still lifes of fruits, flowers and game. His works, often featuring bunches of grapes, embodied the ideals of the Fall River School of still life painters. He signed his works "E.C. Leavitt."

Sources: exh. cat., Painters of Rhode Island (Newport AM, 1986, p.19); For Beauty and for Truth, 76 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.