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Edith Briscoe Stevens

Edith Briscoe Stevens (1898 - 1931) was active/lived in Connecticut, Massachusetts.  Edith Stevens is known for Landscape, coastal views, sculpture.

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Biography of Edith Briscoe Stevens

By Reed Stevens, Niece
Edith Briscoe Stevens was born in Philadelphia in January, 1898,  and lived at 6 Regent Street in Hartford, Connecticut.  She died on August 31, 1931, at her studio in East Gloucester, Massachusetts, the artists' colony in East Gloucester called Rocky Neck.
   
With oils and pastels en plein aire, she painted landscapes and marine scenes, sometimes carrying her kit miles through Vermont snow, and traveling to France, Spain and Morocco as did many of her contemporaries in the 1920's.   An outgoing and gregarious personality, according to The Hartford Courant, "..crowds worry her but little.  In doing a row of house on different levels on a Portuguese street (in Gloucester), she tells how the children crowded in so as hardly to give her elbow room.  When she had to turn the canvas upside down, older persons feared for her sanity.  One old man, not witness   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4016 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  10
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edith Briscoe Stevens
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review William Benton Museum of Art June 1997 Cummings, Hildegard Yes
10 Book References for Edith Briscoe Stevens
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1980 Lippincott, Miriam, editor Artists of the Rockport Art Association, 1980: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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