Media Category: art

Charles Marchant Stevenson began The Goat Lady’s House, at the Goat Lady’s dairy farm outside Tiburon, in the mid-1950s, and completed the painting at his San Francisco studio in 1960, just before his move to Mendocino. Acrylic (29″ x 23″). Private collection. SKU: CS196001

Self Portrait by Charles Marchant Stevenson (1960). Acrylic (36″x36″). Matt Leach, Stevenson’s working partner at Stevenson/Leach Studios, writes, “Planning the reference photos for this self portrait Charles set up a sheet of glass to represent the plane of the canvas, then had a friend shoot the photos through the glass.” http://charlesstevenson.blogspot.com/ Private Collection. SKU: CS196001

Built in the 1870s, Lyford House (the Goat Lady’s house) is now a California Registered Historical Landmark and open to the public. http://lyfordhouse.org/home.aspx / http://thesomewhere.com/stops/the-lyford-house-in-tiburon/ Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary in Tiburon

Still Life with Peppers (1947). Oil. Charles Marchant Stevenson

Still Life with Books (1947). Oil. Charles Marchant Stevenson

Sketch in letter to the girl back home (demobilization, 1945). Inscription: Home: Everyone, everything goes home in the end. Charles Marchant Stevenson.

Backstage: Portrait of Jean Spetrino (1994). Acrylic (36”x48). Hand signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. SKU: CS199401

Creation (1961). Charles Marchant Stevenson envisions Creation: “And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night…and God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:16-18, KJV). Acrylic on canvas (22”x 36”). Private collection. SKU: CS196110

Rising in Song: Portrait of Elaine Miksak (1999). Acrylic on canvas (60” x 48”). Signed: Stevenson ’99. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199920*

Josh The Immoralist: Dancing with Scissors (1996). Josh is reimagined as Bachir, the seductive, unscrupulous North African houseboy, in his famous dance with scissors. The scene is from the play based on André Gide’s autobiographical novel. James Dean played Bachir in the Broadway premiere (1954). Acrylic on canvas (48” x 24”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199602*