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NELSON STEVENS (1938 - 2022) One on One (Music Series).
Mixed media on Strathmore paper, circa 1980. 705x552 mm; 27 3/4x21 3/4 inches. Signed in ink, lower right.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection, Massachusetts (1996).
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Nelson Stevens received his BFA from Ohio University in Athens, OH, and received a MFA in 1969 from Kent State University. After brief teaching stints in Cleveland, Stevens was hired as Assistant Professor of Art at Northern Illinois University where he taught from 1969 to 1971. It was at this time that Stevens was invited to join the newly formed art collective AfriCOBRA. His work was featured in every AfriCOBRA exhibition since AfriCOBRA II at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1971. Recently, he was included in the important traveling museum exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power organized by the Tate Modern, London. Stevens' artworks are in many institutional collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian Institution.
