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