Levanto - Riviera di Levante

Charles B. Keeler

Charles B. Keller studied printmaking with Bertha Jaques and B.J.O. Nordfeldt. He won an honorable mention for his aquatints at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

In 1909 he traveled through Europe - England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy where he spent time traveling and recording the mountains and towns of the regions. In this etching Keeler uses the contrast of the deep shadows of trees in the foreground to view the city, bathed in light, in the distance.

Levanto is a small town in the province of La Spezia on the northern Italian Riviera, the entrance village of the 'Cinque Terre' (The Five Sisters). The town was settled before the Roman Empire. Originally a defensive village its importance declined in the 13th century. Today it is a tourist mecca.