Stevens, Harry: Landscape with Church – SOLD

Description

Artist: Harry Stevens, (1919-2008), signed

Title and date: Landscape with Church, 1949

Size: 37 x 40 cm

Description: a framed gouache, this innovative painting shows the influence of abstraction as early as the late 1940s. More images can be provided on request.

Artist description: With no formal art training, Harry Stevens started his design career in the exhibitions and the display trade. He went on to become a prolific freelance commercial artist, specialising in poster design. He worked for a wide variety of clients and agencies and in 1963 won the Council of Industrial Design Poster Award. In 1955 he joined the Society of Industrial Artists and was elected a Fellow ten years later. He was also a member of the Society of Modern Painters. Harry Stevens designed posters for London Transport from 1960-1978.