Oil on Board Signed William Lester Stevens sold for $1,225.99 with 6 bids in July 2009.

William Lester Stevens
(1888 - 1969)

Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens spent four years at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts School, where he studied under Edmund Tarbell. Primarily an oil painter, he also used watercolor and acrylics. 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.

Landscape barn scene measures framed 24” x 22”; image measures 19” x 17 ½”.  Condition - Paint loss, scratch, stain