Media Category: art

Mendocino Fence by Charles Marchant Stevenson (detail).

The Ukiah Daily Journal (Thursday June 23, 1966) reports that a Peace Fair is scheduled at the Mendocino Coast Gallery on the corner of Lansing and Main (June 29 through July 4th, 1966), events to include a “premiere art exhibit, an epic drama, and a free-wheeling discussion.” Also on the schedule: Israeli Dancing for Peace. Sandra Hawthorne accepts donations at the door. Her sign reads: Donations for the Mendocino Citizens’ Committee – Public Affairs Series –

Mustapha at the Temple of Kom Ombo (1996), is a portrait of the extraordinary Egyptologist who was Charles Marchant Stevenson’s guide in Egypt, and who became his friend, later coming to visit Stevenson in Mendocino. Here Mustafa explains the history of the double temple of Kom Ombo, built on the Nile by the Ptolemies in the Second Century C.E. Acrylic on canvas (48” x 30”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199627*

Mother and Daughters by Charles Marchant Stevenson (1979). Acrylic. Private collection.

Israeli Dancers by Charles Marchant Stevenson (1969). Lolli Blydon or Charlotte Beeson, and Joan Marler. Acrylic. SKU: CS196920

The Gates of Hell by Charles Marchant Stevenson (1994). Matt Leach stands before Auguste Rodin’s monumental Gates of Hell at the Rodin museum in the Hotel Biron, Paris. Acrylic on canvas (48” x 36”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199419*

Charles Marchant Stevenson at 17, in a sculpture class at the Corcoran (1943). All the men are away fighting; the US military has taken over the Corcoran, so classes are being held in temporary quarters, and Charles is counting the days til his 18th birthday when he can enlist in the Navy.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, former home of the Corcoran School of Art, at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC.

Beat poet ruth weiss at the Beat Museum, San Francisco (2017). Photo by Ingeborg Gerdes.

“Esteemed beat poet” ruth weiss “as a beacon of self-reflection” and “a principal figure of feminine wisdom in Luminous Procuress” with the Cockettes (San Francisco 1971), – Steve Seid, Illumination Procured: Steve Arnold and the Body Electric. Photo by Ingeborg Gerdes.