Museum Quality Large Beautiful Painting by Edward John Stevens, Jr. Signed, 1960

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Museum Quality Large Beautiful Painting by Edward John Stevens, Jr. Signed, 1960:
$1200.00

A Large Beautiful Painting by Edward JohnStevens, Jr. Signed and Dated 1960. Thepainting shows a coexistence of mythical animals, plants and human, a favoritetheme of the artist’s imagination. Thepaint is most likely a combination of water colors, wash and oil pastel onpaper. These were his favoritemedia. It is signed by Edward John Stevens, Jr. and dated 1960.

Size of painting: 17 x 22inches. The painting is matted andframed, under plexiglass. Total size ofpainting 25 x 32 inches. It weighs almost10 pounds.

Edward John Stevens, Jr. (1923 - 1988) was anAmerican painter. When he was featured on the cover ofLife magazine in 1950 he was only 27 years old. He was chosen for thecover as an outstanding representative of the up-and-coming painters whoseworks were shown in an article titled “Nineteen Young American Artists.”At that time Stevens had already had one-man museum exhibitions at theBaltimore Museum of Art (1948) and the Honolulu Academy of Art (1947) as well assix one-man shows at the Weyhe Gallery in Manhattan. He went on to have24 one-man gallery exhibitions and his works were acquired by many museumsincluding the Whitney Museum of American Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts andthe Art Institute of Chicago.

Stevens lived and worked in NewJersey throughout his life, studied art at the State Teachers College in Newarkand received a Master degree from Columbia University.

From the time of his firstexhibition, Stevens enjoyed the enthusiastic patronage of a wide variety of artcollectors. Among the distinguished art patrons who acquired his workwere Roy Neuberger, whose collection forms the Neuberger Museum in Purchase,New York, and Joseph Hirshhorn, who bought at least nine works and whosecollection is housed in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC. FleurCowles, revered tastemaker and editor of Flair, was a fan of Stevens\' work,which she published in the magazine in December 1950. In November 1950she wrote to Stevens, praising his paintings:

I have long admired yourwork, and pounced on the opportunity to publish it in FLAIR . . . Abouttwoyears ago I practically tore your picture off the wall of the ArtInstitute of Chicago . . . It has a dominant place in my rather largecollection of paintings at home and it never fails to cause widespread comment,and all good.

Stevens’ strange and delightfulworks depicted imaginary scenes of archaic cultures adorned with primitivesymbols, fantastic interpretations of flowers and animals, and glistening,jewel-like landscape andtownscape. Stevens was a master of gouache (opaque watercolor) with whichhe rendered his vibrantly colored and meticulously detailed visions.Describing Stevens\' gouache paintings, fellow artist and art criticMichael Lenson wrote, in 1955, of the “golden threaded tapestry of his paintingtechnique.\"

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