biografía de Will Henry STEVENS (1881/87-1949)

Lugar de nacimiento: Vevay, IN

Direcciones: New Orleans, LA

Profesión: Painter, educator, drawing specialist

Estudios: Cincinnati Art Acad. with Nowottny, Duveneck, and Meakin; ASL, NYC, with Jonas Lie, Van Dearing Perrine

Exposiciones: New Gallery, NYC, c.1901; Richmond, IN, 1914; SSAL, 1925; AIC, 1940, 1947; Delgado Mus. Art, 1946; New Orleans Arts & Crafts Club; Newcomb College Art Gal., 1945; Black Mountain College, 1945; & numerous traveling exhib.; Asheville Mus. Art, NC, 1967 (retrospective); R. York Gal., NYC, 1987, 1991 (solos)

Asociaciones: Fellowship, Tiffany, 1932.

Obra: BMFA; J.B. Speed Mem. Mus.; Richmond (IN) Art Assoc.; IBM Collection; Delgado Mus. Art; Univ. Oklahoma; galleries, Des Moines; Shreveport, LA; Washington State Univ. Mus. Art, Pullman (River Shore below Vevay"); Tennessee State Mus."

Comentarios: A pioneer among abstract painters of the South during the 1930s. During the 1920s, he painted traditional landscapes, but by the 1930s he was mixing realism with abstraction, and many paintings evolved into complete abstraction, especially in the 1940s. Earlier, in Cincinnati, he worked for a short time at the Rookwood Pottery. From 1921-48, he taught at Newcomb College, New Orleans, and at his own Stevens School of Art, Gatlinburg, TN, in the summers. He visited and painted in Valley Town, NC and Gatlinburg, TN.

Fuentes: WW53; WW47; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 275-76 (with repro.); Kelly, Landscape and Genre Painting in Tennessee, 1810-1985, 114-116 (w/repros.); exh. cat., R. York Gal. (NYC, 1991); American Abstract Art, 199"