William Lester Stevens was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, in 1888. He first studied with Parker Perkins and then attended the Boston Museum School as a student of William Tarbell, Frank Benson, Philip Hale and William Paxton. Stevens 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. Stevens was also a member of the Boston School and opposed to the abstraction of art. He became well known for his landscapes, views of everyday life and portraits. Stevens died in 1969.
"Winter Landscape" William Lester Stevens, Cape Ann Snowy Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens Winter Landscape Signed lower right Oil on canvas 32 x 36 inches Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities ...
Canvas, Oil
"Rockport" William Lester Stevens, North East Coastal American Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens Rockport Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities from a y...
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
William Lester Stevens, early Coastal Scene, Bass Rocks Backshore Gloucester
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Rockport, MA
Painting Size (unframed): 20" × 24" Framed Size: 29" × 33" Signed Lower Right Oil on Canvas Easterly Flow is a powerful coastal landscape by William Lester Stevens. The painting dep...
Oil
Winter Landscape with Trees
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Milford, NH
A fine colorful New England winter landscape with trees and a snow covered stone wall by American artist William Lester Stevens (1888-1969).Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens f...
Canvas, Oil
The Bridge
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left. 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 Co...
Oil, Board
$9,500
Rockport Artist William Lester Stevens "Old Apple Tree" Landscape Painting
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Rockport, MA
Painting Size (unframed): 24" × 29" Framed Size: 31" × 36" Signed Lower Right Oil on Canvas This evocative landscape by William Lester Stevens captures the quiet poetry of rural Ne...
Oil
Uncle Dick's Fish House
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right Bio: 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. Although influenced by Tarbell, Stevens' wide range of brushstrokes and impressionist style prevented him from being classified as a "Tarbellist," as many of Tarbell's followers were labeled. Stevens joined the Army in 1917 and was sent to Europe where he continued to paint and sketch. Upon his return to the United States, he was pleased to discover that Rockport had become a popular haven for artists. Though he was the only native son among them, such well-known painters as Frank Duveneck, Childe Hassam, Leon Kroll and Jonas Lie also recorded the scenery of Rockport, Cape Ann and Gloucester. In 1921, together with fifty other artists, Stevens founded the Rockport Art Association, primarily to plan exhibitions of the work of outstanding area artists. Throughout the course of his long career, Stevens taught, first in Rockport, then at Boston University (1925-1926) and Princeton (1927-1929). He later gave lessons and held one-man shows in Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina, where his work was well-received. Southerners particularly enjoyed his views of famous Southern gardens and cities. Though the Depression years were difficult for both the artist and his family, the 1930s did bring Stevens some measure of commercial and personal success. He did a number of covers for "The American Legion Magazine" and won prizes in New Haven, Springfield and Rockport. In 1934, he abandoned Rockport to the growing tourist population and moved to Springfield, and then to Conway, Massachusetts, where he remodeled an old farmhouse and constructed a studio which looked north towards Mount Monadnock...
Canvas, Oil
$11,520Sale Price|40% Off
TOP OF THE HILL
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed on front by the artist. Original oil on masonite painting. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will ...
Masonite, Oil
$850
H 6 in W 8 in D 1.5 in
Duomo at Sunset, Impressionism , Landscape, Framed, Plein Aire, Italy, Oil
Located in Houston, TX
Duomo at Sunset at Piazelle Michelangelo, Florence is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels in Italy and France. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings. The Piazzale Michelangelo...
Canvas, Oil
"Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler's (NC based) "Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" is an oil painting that depicts a green grassy plain dotted with Pine trees leading to the snow capped mountains in th...
Oil, Wood Panel
$4,960Sale Price|20% Off
H 30 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
Orange and Purple Trees in Harmony Contemporary Texas Landscape 30" x 48"
By Steve Parker
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING. PRICE NEGOTIABLE Orange and Purple Trees in Harmony is an contemporary impressionist landscape painting that was painted from scenes near Brenham and Chap...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$19,064
H 13.59 in W 11.82 in D 1.97 in
Pair of Views of Villa Medici Vascello - Pair of Oil Paintings - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Views of Villa Medici Vascello are an old master artwork realized by Artist of 17th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The View of Villa Medici Vascello toward...
Oil, Canvas
$5,520Sale Price|35% Off
H 38 in W 36 in D 4 in
'Early Morning River Landscape, ' by Harry L. Hoffman, Oil on Canvas Painting
By Harry L. Hoffman
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this gilt wood framed oil on canvas waterscape, American Impressionist artist Harry Hoffman depicts the last moments of a morning sunrise over a river in predominant hues of lavender, purple, pink and blue. The sky is reflected in the water below with a sandy brown beach and large green tree in the foreground. Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists’ colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman’s antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910, Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921. Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick...
Canvas, Oil
"Sangre De Cristo Range, Salida Colorado" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler's (NC based) "Sangre De Cristo Range, Salida Colorado" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tan prairie leading to the ...
Wood, Oil
$2,800
H 8.13 in W 11.13 in
Marine Painting "Trois Pêcheurs" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Trois Pêcheurs" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1948) Oil on board Signed l.l. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 (8 1/8 x 11 1/8 frame) inches Louis Pastour was called the “...
Oil, Board
$504Sale Price|47% Off
H 10.24 in W 13 in
Fauvist Oil Painting of Landscape with River and Boat, 2010+
By Vladimir Ksieski
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Vladimir Ksieski studied art at the Whitechapel School of Art in his native London, where he will later exhibit as well as in different cities in Spa...
Oil, Board
"Money to Loan" Oil Painting
By Jim Beckner
Located in Denver, CO
Jim Beckner's (US based) "Money to Loan" is an oil painting that depicts a unique red Money for loan sign on a busy city block Artist statement: Jim Beckner’s art vibrates with the...
Oil
$350
H 5 in W 5 in D 1 in
"Le Jardin de Monet, III"(2023) by Leigh Ann Van Fossan, Oil Painting, Lily Pond
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Le Jardin de Monet, III" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impression of a lily pond. Van Fossan was born in Vail, Colorado, and began o...
Canvas, Oil
$4,850
H 10.75 in W 8.75 in
The Bridge Over the Sauceron at Nesles la Vallée (Val d'Oise) Maurice de Lambert
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Bridge upon the Sauceron at Nesles la Vallée (Val d'Oise), 1918" Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert (French, 1873-1952) Oil on cardboard Signed and dated lower right 10 3/4 x 8 3/...
Oil, Cardboard
$1,950
H 15.5 in W 19.5 in
Swedish Mid century modern Impressionist landscape of a Village
Located in Woodbury, CT
Choosing to acquire a Swedish mid-20th-century modern Impressionist landscape by Helge Cardell is an opportunity to bring a harmonious blend of artistic innovation and natural beauty...
Canvas, Oil
Winter Landscape with Stream
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Milford, NH
A nicely executed impressionist oil painting winter landscape with stream by American artist William Lester Stevens (1888-1969).Born in ...
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 25 in W 29 in D 3 in
Antique Impressionist New England Landscape Oil Painting, William Lester Stevens
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American landscape painting by William Stevens (1888 - 1969). Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed. Displayed in a period...
Canvas, Oil
Fishing Boats at Harbor
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Lester Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. He first studied art privately with painter Parker Perkins,...
Canvas, Oil
Orchard Blossom Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressionist landscape by William Lester Stevens (1888-1969). Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed lower right, "William L. Stevens". Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 26"...
Canvas, Oil
First Snow
By William Lester Stevens
Located in Southampton, NY
Circa 1930 Signed lower left
Oil, Board