Today, is the final day to see The Eye of Lightning Billy by Harold Stevenson on exhibit at the Jewish Museum of New York. During the exhibit, back in June, 2022, Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York, wrote a story about Detra Denise. It was an amazingly familiar story to me. Maybe, because …
Abstract Realism is taken over by Pop Harold Stevenson (American, 1929 – 2022) was living in Paris during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He would make frequent flights home with a new crowd called jetsetters. As aeroplane [Harold’s word for it] travel became affordable, Harold’s perspective on what was happening in Paris France and …
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Beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog featuring the art and biography of Harold Stevenson (American, 1929-2018). The curated art pieces cover more than 70 years of Stevenson’s career. Jordan includes biographical narratives that introduce the reader to Stevenson’s childhood growing up in rural southeastern Oklahoma. Choctaw Indians and African Americans were his neighbors and frequent models for …
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It will take at least an hour to tell Harold Stevenson’s story. Here’s a 5-minute video from Art in Community: The Harold Stevenson Collection, curated by Dian Jordan, University of Texas Permian Basin. Transcript: Harold Stevenson was uninvited by the Guggenheim New York for their 1963 Six Painters and the Object. After being rejected, Stevenson’s …
One year ago, our beloved Harold Stevenson (March 11, 1929 – October 21, 2018) joined the beautiful boys of his past. Harold Stevenson is an artist who wielded the paint brush, the spray can, and the canvas as his voice for social commentary. That legacy lives on. Harold left us with images of friendship and …
Artist’s Inspiration Harold Stevenson was profoundly influenced by his direct association with Indians. He grew up as neighbors with Choctaws. His models were often Indian. His grandfather, Dove Stevenson, a country doctor, administered life saving medicine during the Spanish Flu (1918). He would sew up the guts of a young man split open in a …
American artist Harold Stevenson figure drawing is his found beauty in the object many find fault with. Too fat, too thin, too wrinkled, too unattractive. Stevenson presented the anatomy of human body parts. To enhance figure drawing, he magnified his studies onto large scale canvas. He gave us 64 Times Life Size . This piece …
Where Hochatown Was (1978) by Harold Stevenson The painting was completed nearly ten years after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impounded the free-flowing Mountain Fork River as part of the federal flood control act. Hochatown was a close-knit community. Legend says it was first settled by the “Hocha” family of Choctaw Indians from the …
Art News reports Alice Walton purchases Rauschenberg. In fact, she felt $78 million worth drawn to Robert Rauschenberg’s Buffalo II. I’ve never met Alice Walton, but I’m pretty sure I like her. Why do collectors feel drawn to an artist or a specific painting? Artists do not create in a vacuum. The work of a …
TWA Hotel opens at JFK airport. The hotel will take guests back in time to an era of luxury, accommodation, and service. The 505 room hotel, conference center and meeting rooms will remind travelers of the era of jet set travel. Harold Stevenson Jet Sets from New York to Paris The jet set became a …