Nelson Stevens (1938-2022)

Heroic-1, 1970-71
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)

PROVENANCE

The artist
Carol Braddock, Cincinnati, OH (purchased from the artist in 1973 or 1974)
The John and Susan Horseman Collection, 2019

Exhibitions

Arts Program Gallery, Adelphi, MD, Nelson Stevens: Color Rapping, 09/25/2022 - 01/08/2023, Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA: March 4 - September 3, 2023
Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, TN, Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial, 10/22/2023 - 01/14/2024

Publications

Robert L. Douglas. Resistance, Insurgence and Identity: The Art of Mari Evans, Nelson Stevens and the Black Arts Movement. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2008. 249 – 252, 283, illus.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2023, 63, 64, cat.33, illus.