Beulah Stevenson
Beulah Eisle Stevenson (1890–1965) was an American painter and printmaker.
Born in Brooklyn Heights, Stevenson lived there her entire life. In New York she studied at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League, where her instructors included John Sloan; in Provincetown, she worked with Hans Hofmann. Her work appeared in many group shows, and she won a number of awards.[1] She was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum for many years,[2] and that museum owns a number of examples of her work,[3] as do the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.[1] 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 . She also belonged to the American Artists' Congress; when that organization came to become closer in affiliation to the Communist Party, she left to join the .[2] 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 and has been partially digitized.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b People Reading: Selections from the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman. Spartanburg Art Museum. 2008.
- ^ a b "Beulah Stevenson – Peyton Wright Gallery". Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ "Beulah E. Stevenson papers, 1928–1966 | Archives of American Art". Aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-29.
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