Thank you to the media for helping us spread the news about Harold’s art. Recent articles include The Search is On from the Texarkana Gazette. This article is especially pertinent to the Four States area (OK, TX, AR, LA) as this is the epicenter of where Harold’s first collectors live. I found one piece that …
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 …
How to make the slide projector work It took several trips around town to find all the necessary equipment to view the slides created that day, June 7, 1967. By 2019, more than fifty years had passed since anyone had looked at them. Kodak slide carousels were hard to come by. Once we found one, …
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 …
1962 Venice Biennale In 1962, Paris gallery owner, Iris Clert, rents a Grand Canal palazzo belonging to Count Leonardo Arrivabene Valenti Gonzagal for her Piccola Biennale. Credited with representing Yves Klein, Tinguely, and Harold Stevenson, she said of Stevenson “A new Michelangelo, I adore him” (LIFE magazine, July 30, 1962 International Edition). LIFE tends to …
The quarterly meeting of the McCurtain County Historical Society (MCHS)will be held on Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 P.M. at the Barnes-Stevenson museum, 302 S.E. Ave. A., Idabel OK. Dian Jordan, visiting curator for the Museum of Red River and Harold Stevenson biographer, will be the guest speaker. Her presentation will focus on the history …
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