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Monica Hannasch in her batik studio at the Mendocino Art Center (1966). Photo by Bill Foote.
Monica Hannasch in her batik studio at the Mendocino Art Center (1966). Photo by Bill Foote.
Charles Marchant Stevenson in his studio at the Mendocino Art Center (1965). Photo by Bill Foote.
Charles Marchant Stevenson, Grand Hotel Europa, Prague (1991). Photo by Antonia Lamb.
Charles Marchant Stevenson (1981). Photo by Antonia Lamb.
Left to right: Betty Thompson, Sandra Hawthorne, Mary Linley Taylor in the Mendocino production of Jean Giraudoux’s Madwoman of Chaillot. Photo by Bill Foote.
Fox & Hare: the story of a Friday evening. (1980) Written by Chester Anderson, and illustrated by Charles Marchant Stevenson. Cover of trade paperback edition.
Last Day at the Easel: Charles Marchant Stevenson (2004). Filled with golden light and deep shadow, Antonia Lamb’s photo portrait of Charles Marchant Stevenson captures the artist in his Mendocino studio, at his easel for the last time. On the easel is the unfinished Portrait of the Jonas Family, now in the collection of Judy and Wayne B. Jonas.
The unfinished Portrait of the Jonas Family (2004) is Charles Marchant Stevenson’s last painting, the one on which he was working on the last day he was strong enough to paint. Acrylic on canvas.
The Poet and the Artist: portrait of jazz poet ruth weiss and California artist Paul Blake by Charles Marchant Stevenson (2002). Everything changes, but the painting, and ruth weiss’s companion poem, stand testament to a special time, and a relationship in which the whole was greater than its parts. Acrylic on canvas (24” x 48”). Hand signed: Stevenson. SKU: CS200202.*
Portrait of Bonnie Sanger (2000). Charles Marchant Stevenson surprised Bonnie Sanger with this portrait, she was moved to see that he had chosen the exact shade of golden yellow she habitually visualized during meditation. Acrylic on canvas. SKU: CS200004