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The house had five bedrooms and a library, as well as the only working fireplace in Samoa. Art and furniture on display in the house included a nude by Rodin, given to Stevenson by the artist, a tablecloth gifted by Queen Victoria and a piano. Stevenson was popular with the local community, who gave him the nickname Tusitala or "Teller of Tales ...
Stevenson Memorial is a 1903 oil painting by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, intended to commemorate the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Though Thayer initiated several paintings with the intent of honoring Stevenson, Stevenson Memorial is the only version to survive the artist's revisions.
Harold Moncreau Stevenson Jr. (March 11, 1929 – October 21, 2018) was an American painter known for his paintings of the male nude. [1] He was a friend, a mentor, and an associate of Andy Warhol , and appeared in the Warhol film Heat (credited as "Harold Childe").
Agualine (1980) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022. A prolific artist who worked in painting, sculpture, printmaking and film, Graves first made her presence felt on the New York art scene in the late 1960s and 70's, with life-size sculptures of camels that seemed as accurate as a natural history display.
The site has hosted the Stevenson Cottage Museum since the founding of the Stevenson Society, in 1915, making it the first Stevenson museum to open and the world’s first dedicated Stevenson site. Its collection includes original furniture from Stevenson’s stay, scrapbooks with large sections of the author’s works, garments worn by ...
Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (25 March 1847 – 18 April 1900) was a Scottish art critic, a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the brother of Katharine de Mattos. He was also an artist, painting landscapes and country figures.
The Whatcom Museum is opening a new exhibit this month, featuring French paintings on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Bellingham’s Whatcom Museum was chosen as one of ...
In 1893 Nerli was elected to the council of the Otago Art Society and in 1894 set up the Otago Art Academy with J.D. Perrett and L.W. Wilson in Dunedin's Octagon. Its life classes employing a professional nude model were so successful that the government run Dunedin School of Art had to hire Nerli for the same purpose.