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Art: Stevens - Original Pastel of Black Couple #1167728

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Art: Stevens - Original Pastel of Black Couple #1167728
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Art by Angelina Stevens is rarely offered at auction. </em></td>
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Friends is an original pastel drawing by Angelina Stevens (American born 1898). It is signed in the lower right. The art is 13 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches. It is triple matted and framed under glass. The brown wood frame is 20 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches. This appears to be in very good condition but has not been examined out of the frame. Provenance: The estate of the artist where it was described as a portrait of a Southern Negro Couple.

The following is from the "Daily News" of Northampton, Massachusetts, courtesy of Susan Rice, curator of the Sellars Collection.

Born in Siena, Italy, Angelina Stevens became known for her pastel portraits of children as well as for floral paintings in oil. She came to America at age three and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts. Quincy was then known for its granite, and her father enrolled her in classes to learn to carve granite. Soon she was doing faces in charcoal, and her talents were so apparent that her teachers arranged her classes so that she could have art lessons every day.

At Boston University in 1926 in a night class, she was a student of W. Lester Stevens, whom she married that same year. They had a forty-three year marriage, ending in his death in 1969, and she subjugated her own talents to promoting his work. During the many years of his teaching classes, she often provided board and room for selected students, sometimes eight at a time.

They toured in Europe and ultimately settled in Conway, Massachusetts after spending three years in Princeton, ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:circa 1925-1940</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Angelina Stevens</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:20.25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:23.25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Art: Stevens - Original Pastel of Black Couple</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Realistic</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:paper, pastel, glass, wood</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Nags Head, NC USA</td></tr>
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