Beulah Stevenson, Beulah Stevenson 1950s Abstract Expressionism American Woman Artist Oil Painting, 1955

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Dimensions: 32"h, 25"w canvas; 38.5"h, 32"with frame
Work is titled "Two Lillies"

Elsie Stevenson (1890–1965) was an American painter and … Read more Dimensions: 32"h, 25"w canvas; 38.5"h, 32"with frame
Work is titled "Two Lillies"

Elsie Stevenson (1890–1965) was an American painter and printmaker.

Beulah Stevenson, (1875-1965) American painter and printmaker. Born in Brooklyn Heights, Beulah (Elsie Sloan) Stevenson lived there her entire life. In New York she studied at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League, where her instructors included Ashcan artist John Sloan; in Provincetown, she worked and studied with Abstract Expressionist artist Hans Hofmann (an influential teacher whose students included many notable artists including Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Irene Rice Pereira, Gerome Kamrowski, Fritz Bultman, Wolf Kahn, Marisol Escobar and Beulah Stevenson), a long-time curator at the Brooklyn Museum, was also among his pupils. Her work appeared in many group shows, and she won a number of awards. She was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum for many years, and that museum owns a number of examples of her work, as do the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Stevenson maintained many professional associations during her career; she was president of the New York Society of Women Artists, a board member of the National Association of Women Artists, and a vice-president of the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, International Graphic Society Inc., Philadelphia Print Club, Provincetown Art Association and the Creative Artist's Association. She also belonged to the American Artists' Congress which promoted social-realist style of American scene painting, she left to join the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors established To Promote Avant-Garde Art. Stevenson was said by a friend to have destroyed many of her papers prior to her death, but a collection was donated to the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Art Institute of Chicago; , Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Print Club of Philadelphia; National Arts Club, New York; Metropolitan Museum; Whitney Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Chicago Art Institute; Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts; Rochester Memorial Museum; St. Paul Museum; M. H. De Young Memorial Museum Of Art; Houston Museum Of Art; William R. Nelson Museum Of Art; Columbus Museum Of Art; American Institute Of Graphic Arts; Provincetown Art Association; Columbia Museum Of Art; Schenectady Museum Of Fine Art; Portland Museum, ME; Royal Society, London; Gallery O’ Bose, Paris; Museum Of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museum Des Belles Arts, Argentina; Museum Of Fine Arts, Mexico; University Of Notre Dame; Mint Museum Of Fine Art; New Britain Museum Of Art; Philadelphia Academy Of Fine Arts; Wildenstein Gallery; World's Fair, 1940;

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Society of Women Artists,
American Society of Contemporary Women Artists,
National Association of Woman Artists
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