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Clara Stephens

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Clara Jane Stephens (1877 - 1952) was active/lived in Oregon, California.  Clara Stephens is known for Town-landscape, missions, genre.

Painter. Born near Lands End, England on May 16, 1877. Stephens grew up in Portland, OR and first studied there in the 1890s with Eva Woolfolk and with Frank V. DuMond who was there for a brief visit. She further studied at the ASL of NYC under Kenyon Cox and Wm M. Chase and in France and Italy. She taught at the Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland Academy (1905-14) and Portland Museum Art School (1917-38). She was in San Francisco during the PPIE where she served on the Advisory Committee for the West. During the 1920s her paintings received international acclaim. While living in Portland she painted and exhibited in the San Francisco Bay area into the 1930s. A spinster, she died in Portland on May 1, 1952. Working in oil and watercolor, she produced portraits, landscapes, and still lifes a la Wm M. Chase. Member: AAPL; Oregon Society of Artists. Exh: Lewis & Clark Expo (Portland), 1905; PPIE, 1915; San Francisco Art Association, 1918; Portland AA, 1914, 1919 (solos); NAD; Seatt

Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here.

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Similar artists

.  There are 4 similar (related) artists for Clara Stephens available:    Charles Heaney,  Percy Manser,  Clyde Leon Keller,  Richard Goodwin



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16 Book References for Clara Stephens
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
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959 251 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 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
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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