Lobsterman's Yard
Type:Painting
Size:10.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Signed
William Lester Stevens ART FOR SALE
1888 Rockport, Massachusetts - 1969 Springfield, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, marine, genre and still life painting, teaching.
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts. His first art... Read full biography
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts. His first art study was with Parker Perkins, and then he attended the Boston Museum School as a student of Edmund... Read full biography
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts. His first art study was with Parker Perkins, and then he attended the Boston Museum School as a student of Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale and William Paxton. He taught at Princeton and Boston Universities, and by 1964 had won more awards than any other living artist. Stevens, along with his friend Aldro... Read full biography
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts. His first art study was with Parker Perkins, and then he attended the Boston Museum School as a student of Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale and William Paxton. He taught at Princeton and Boston Universities, and by 1964 had won more awards than any other living artist. Stevens, along with his friend Aldro Hibbard, was instrumental in organizing the Rockport Art Association in 1921 with the goal of making art more accessible to common people. Later in his life Stevens also organized the Conway Festival of the Hills and the Berkshire Arts Festival.... Read full biography
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Conway, Massachusetts. His first art study was with Parker Perkins, and then he attended the Boston Museum School as a student of Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale and William Paxton. He taught at Princeton and Boston Universities, and by 1964 had won more awards than any other living artist. Stevens, along with his friend Aldro Hibbard, was instrumental in organizing the Rockport Art Association in 1921 with the goal of making art more accessible to common people. Later in his life Stevens also organized the Conway Festival of the Hills and the Berkshire Arts Festival. Stevens was a member of the Boston School, traditionalists and impressionists, opposed to abstraction in art. The subject mat... Read full biography
William Lester Stevens - Art for Sale (5 available)
New England farm scene
Type:Painting
Size:30.50" x 32.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Featured in our 12/28/09 auction, Lot: 4192
Boatyard
Type:Painting
Size:17.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Lower Right
Village Church, Hamilton, Mass.
Type:Painting
Size:14.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
City Scene by William Lester Stevens (1888-1969)
2 Mill Lane in Rockport, MA
Type:Painting
Size:28.50" x 36.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Impressionist Cape Ann scene of Two Mill Ln. by William Lester Stevens (1888-1969). Oil on canvas on board, signed lower right, housed in period gilt decorative gessoed frame. Some minor gilt loss on frame. Dimensions: 19 3/4” H x 27 1/4” W, actual; 28 1/2” H x 36” W, framed. Ref: 12738