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| William Lester Stevens
American 1888 -1969
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| Born: |
Rockport Massachusetts
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| Died: |
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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| Studied: |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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| Instructors: |
Parker S. Perkins
Edmund Charles Tarbell
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| Examples of Work: |
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
Ashville Museum of Art, North Carolina
Hickory Museum of Art, North Carolina
Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York
Springfield Museum of Art, Massachusetts
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Instructor
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| Style/School: |
Boston School
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| Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
Portraits
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| Memberships: |
Rockport Art Association
National Academy of Design ANA 1930; NA 1943
American Watercolor Society
Baltimore Watercolor Club
Boston Art Club
Boston Paint and Clay Club
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| Teaching Positions: |
Boston University
Princeton University
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| Artist Profile |
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| BIOGRAPHY: |
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens received his initial art training from Parker Perkins, a local marine painter who charged him fifty cents an hour. He later spent four years at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under Edmund Tarbell, among others. Al...
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William L. Stevens began his artistic education by studying with Parker Perkins in Rockport. He moved on to the Boston Museum of Fine Art School when he left Rockport in 1934, and then went to Europe just after WWI. Although h...
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