Diana Levine, Fine Art

Gayle Levee was born on the edge of the Blackfoot Indian reservation in Cut Bank, Montana. Her great-grandparents, descendants of the Mayflower voyage, had homesteaded in Northern Montana when that territory opened for settlement.

Her grandfather, Boji Ormson, illustrated his letters with drawings of Montana mining- town life and characters. His work resides in the Montana Historical Society Museum. Walt Disney offered Boji a job at the studio in California, but Boji preferred his Montana
way of life. It was his daughter, and then his granddaughter, who pursued art beyond the mountains.

Laura Ormson studied art at Choinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and subsequently worked in Denver Colorado. Laura‚s daughter Gayle studied at the
University of Denver. She sold her artwork in Denver, in Estes Park and in Taos New Mexico for a number of years before she travelled East, seeking the family‚s
Mayflower roots.

In New England, Gayle was immediately drawn to the work of Robert Douglas Hunter and John Trainor, both Copley Masters who had learned at the feet of R.H.Ives
Gammel and Dumonde. Thier work was part of the tradition of the Boston School, the original New World Impressionists and precursors to The Ten. Gayle joined the Copley Society and studied under Hunter and
Trainor.

This experience filled in the gaps of Gayle's knowledge as an artist. Her new work was quickly recognised by galleries in Boston, on Cape Cod, in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and the Central South. Collectors from coast to coast have bought her
work, which has won awards throughout the United States.