M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES
WILLIAM LESTER STEVENS
American (Massachusetts) 1888-1969
"SPRING BLOOMS ON THE FARM"
Watercolor and Gouache on Illustration Board
Signed "W. LESTER STEVENS" l.r.
Housed in a 22k Custom Giltwood Frame, Beneath Museum Glass
Museums: 15, including Smithsonian, Wadsworth Atheneum, Rockport Art Association,
Hunter Museum, Museum of Fine Arts-Springfield, Hickory Museum
Books: 29 including Curtis, Judith A, W. Lester Stevens, N.A.
Periodicals: 5 articles American Art Review, including W. Lester Stevens, N.A. (1888-1969,) October 2003
Image Size: 14” x 18”
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oTHER pAINTINGS BY william lester stevens:
STEVENS, William Lester (1888-1969)
Birthplace: Rockport, MA
Death place: Greenfield, MA
Addresses: Rockport, MA, until 1934; Boston, Springfield, Conway, MA
Profession: Landscape painter, teacher
Studied: with Parker S. Perkins in Rockport; Boston Museum of Fine Arts School; in Europe after WWI
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1906 (at age 18); Art Institute of Chicago, 1911-38; Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts Annual, 1912-37; Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1914-28 (5 times, incl. 4th prize, 1921); Connecticut Academy of
Fine Arts, 1924 (prize); 1927 (prize); American Watercolor Society, 1928 (prize); New Haven Paint & Clay Club, 1929
(prize), 1933 (prize), 1942 (prize); Springfield AL, 1925 (prize), 1932 (prize), 1953-55 (prizes); Quincy, 1932 (medal);
Springville, UT, 1931 (prize), 1941 (prize); Women's Club, MA, 1930-33 (prizes),1934 (prize), 1937 (prize), 1938 (prize);
Salons of Am., 1934; Meriden Art & Crafts Assn., 1938-42 (prizes); Washington Landscape Club, 1939 (prize);
Washington Watercolor Club, 1942 (prize); Washington Art Club, 1941 (prize); Rockport Artists Association, 1953 (prize),
1956 (prize), 1957 (prize); North Shore Artists Association, 1953 (prize); Ogunquit, ME, 1952-54 (prizes), 1956 (prizes);
Gloucester, MA, 1958 (prize).
Member: National Academy; Associate member of the National Academy of Design, 1935; American Watercolor Society;
Rockport Artists Association (founder, 1923); Gallery on Moors; Springfield (MA) AL; Guild Boston Artists; Philadelphia
Watercolor Club; NY Watercolor Club; New Haven Paint & Clay Club; Gloucester Society of Artist; North Shore Artists
Association, 1923-69;
Boston Watercolor Club.
Work: Canton Art Institute; Hickory Museum of Art; Asheville Museum of Art; Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Springfield
Museum of Fine Arts; Boston Arts Club; Birmingham (AL) Public Library; Gloucester (MA) High School.; Rockport (MA) High
School; Tewksbury (MA) State Sanitarium; Mint Museum Art; WPA murals, USPOs, Dedham, Rockport, both in Massachusetts;
Boston City Club; Louisville (KY) Art Museum; Springville (UT) Arts Association; Wilson, Wolcott, Gavin schools, all in Boston
Comments: He left Rockport in 1934 for western Massachusetts, settling in Conway in 1944. Nicknamed "Steve," he was
considered eccentric, and compulsive about painting outdoors every day. He produced about 5,000 paintings. After a summer
painting on Monhegan, he said "I’ve done 60 and got 6 good ones!" His early works have a heavy impasto in oil while his later
works are often of light washes in acrylic on Masonite. He taught for short periods at Boston University and Princeton, but held
frequent classes at his Conway studio as well as in Washington, DC and at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. He took his students to
Asheville, NC, New Orleans, Charleston SC, Quebec and Gaspe, Canada; and in the 1930s Stevens ran a summer art school
at Grand Manan.
Sources: Who’s Who 1959; Charles Movalli, article in American Artist (Apr., 1986, p.52); WW47; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 116, 186;
Falk, Exh. Record Series; info. courtesy North Shore AA.
This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums:
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Louisiana State University Museum of Art
Rockport Art Association
George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
Museum of Fine Arts-Springfield
Colby College Museum of Art
Asheville Art Museum/Crawley Museum
The Hickory Museum of Art
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
Hunter Museum of American Art
Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
Springville Museum of Art
Wright Museum of Art
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
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