Gayle Levée is today's link in an unbroken chain of master-to-student lasting for 160 years; beginning with and passing from Paul Delaroche to Jean-Leon Gerome to William Paxton to Ives Gammell to Gayle Levee's master, Robert Douglas Hunter. Contemporary art historians consider Mr. Hunter to be a golden link in this chain and a preeminent artist of the Boston School of Still Life Painting. Gayle Levée has brought this important lineage into the third millenium.