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Bradley Stevens was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1954 and raised in Westport, Connecticut. In 1972, he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1979. In addition to his formal art education, Stevens spent five years copying over three hundred Old Master paintings at the National Gallery of Art. In 1982, he was invited to teach drawing and anatomy at his alma mater; in 1988, he began teaching drawing and portrait painting at Georgetown University as well. He remained a faculty member of both institutions until the year 2000. In his career of over twenty-five years, Stevens has forged a reputation
as one of America’s leading realist painters. His style is contemporary
realism––rooted in classical training, yet boldly expressing
modernity through his use of paint and his penetrating eye. Stevens
is unique among his contemporaries for his exceptional achievements
in three domains of representational art: portraiture, landscapes and
figurative urban landscapes. He frequently works on commission, and
many of the commissioned paintings are on a grand scale for public and
private spaces. |
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