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 is hanging on the same living room wall above the sofa. It has been there for seventy years! The home and the art are being handed down through the generations. I’m excited for you to see it at the exhibition Art in Community: March 20 – Jun 7, 2020.
IDABEL, Okla. — Artist Harold Stevenson may have befriended Andy Warhol, studied with Robert Rauschenberg, lived in Europe and created art that landed in top galleries and shows the world over, but at heart he was always a McCurtain County boy”
Aaron Brand, Texarkana Gazette
The Man from Oklahoma
It was easy for Harold Stevenson to create his persona when he left his little Okie hometown of Idabel Oklahoma. He arrived in New York City (1949) while another Oklahoman, Lynn Riggs, was enjoying the spotlight of his inspired musical Oklahoma! Harold quickly embraced being introduced as the man from Oklahoma. He could be found sporting a white cowboy hat.
The Man from Oklahoma, however, is not always being embraced by the academy. His work is often considered too bold. The Guggenheim rejected him.
“It’s moments like these that pushed Stevenson’s work to the periphery of Pop Art’s rise, …”
Kelly Rogers, ARTDESK
Harold Stevenson was in love with two cities of Paris. Paris across the big pond, in France, was where he lived and created some of his most powerful work. Paris, south of the Red River was where he often traveled to meet with friends and patrons. When people say “Harold in Paris…” I have to ask “Which one?” One day, he took his pal, Sal Mineo, to Paris (the one south of the river). I recently caught up with one of the friends they went to visit. You can read about it here –
http://theparisnews.com/news/article_5c1d9910-7b12-11e9-bf66-fb3de95b92f4.html
(1897) Gustav Klimt is being commissioned to create Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence for the University of Vienna. “The authorities considered them outrageous…”
Randol Schoenberg (right) with Maria Altmann and Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
We are closing today’s news with Harold’s best known rejected art The New Adam.
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