Feluccas on the Nile (1996). The felucca, its graceful lines virtually unchanged for millennia, with sails like the wings of the Nile’s great white egrets, glides between Aswan and Luxor. Acrylic on canvas (48” x 30”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199632
On the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the Mamelukes by Louis Comfort Tiffany (c.1872), Photo: The Athenaeum.
The Citadel by Moonlight (1996). Charles Marchant Stevenson views the mid-19th century Great Mosque of Mehmet Ali Pasha through an exquisite grillework window within the Citadel, a medieval Islamic fortification in Cairo. The Mosque was built within the walls of the Citadel which might be the reason the Mosque itself is popularly known as The Citadel (al-qal’a). Surah 24:35 of the Holy Qur’an says, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth,” and likens the light of Allah to the light of a lamp. The simple terracotta oil lamp at the window is our reminder. Through the grillework, the domes of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali glow under the light of a full moon, each dome, symbolic of the dome of heaven. Acrylic on canvas (40” x 30”). Signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199629*
The window through which Charles Marchant Stevenson saw the Great Mosque of Mehmet Ali by moonlight. Photo courtesy of Momo.
The Great Mosque of Mehmet Ali Pasha, sometimes called the Alabaster Mosque, was built during the first half of the 19th century (architect Yusuf Bushnaq). Photo courtesy of Olaf Tausch, Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of the Artist Matt Leach as a Young Man in the Computer Age (1994). The young artist is pictured as a solitary ronin, armed only with his brush, doing battle against the incursions of the computer age, fighting for the survival of ancient traditions. Acrylic on canvas (38” x 48” ). Hand signed: Stevenson. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199423
3 Elephants (1994). Acrylic on canvas (30” x 48”). Signed: Stevenson ’94. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199422*
Carnival in Venice (1994) is a study for a planned, but unrealized, large folding screen. In early twilight, masked Carnival revelers throng the alleys and bridges of Venice. Acrylic on canvas (32” x 80”). Signed on reverse: Stevenson/Leach. Stevenson/Leach Studios. SKU: CS199421*
Vendor at the Baptistry, Pisa (1994). A young souvenir vender, at the eastern door of the Baptistry of the Cathedral of Pisa, sits shielded from hot morning sun. His stand is laden with guidebooks and, a tourist favorite, small models of the Torre pendente di Pisa, the Leaning Tower. Behind the vendor is a box of prickly pear pads from home, and pliers for handling them. He scans the morning paper, and waits for the crowds. Acrylic on canvas (48” x 36”). Signed: Stevenson ’94. Stevenson/Leach Studios. Original artist’s frame. SKU: CS199420*
Left to right: the Baptistry, the Cathedral, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
