Train Station at Yonkers

Lever, an Australian with British marine art training and a love of Van Gogh, is a unique and compelling character in the canon of 20th-century American Impressionists. He painted ships and shores, from racing yachts to High Bridge, so this railroad scene is unusual for him. He could have painted it when he first came to New York in 1912, but more likely it dates to a later period, when he lived in Mount Vernon for the last 20 years of his life. Since this is one of the suburban stations for the long closed Putnam Division, it may have even been a station Lever used.