Asheville Art Museum
2 South Pack Square
P.O. Box 1717
Asheville, NC 28802
P.O. Box 1717
Asheville, NC 28802
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Museums page for William Lester Stevens ((1888 - 1969)), known for Landscape, marine, genre and still life painting, teaching. Showing 14 museum collections and exhibitions.
William Lester Stevens MUSEUMS
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 - Artist Info
About William Lester Stevens: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (14)
All MuseumsCanton Museum of Art
1001 Market Avenue North
Canton, OH 44702George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Hickory Museum of Art
243 Third Avenue N.E.
Hickory, NC 28601Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Rockport Art Association
12 Main Street
Rockport, MA 01966The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511-5595