Thomas E. Stephens (artist)

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Thomas E. Stephens taken in 1960
Stephens's portrait of George C. Marshall. (c. 1949)

Thomas Edgar Stephens (November 18, 1886 – January 4, 1966)[1][2] was a Welsh-American artist and portrait painter.

Biography

Born in Cardiff, Wales in 1886, he studied at the Art School of Cardiff University, then at the Heatherly School in London, and then at the Académie Julian in Paris. One of the first portraits Stephens painted upon his arrival in the United States in 1929 was that of Abraham Lincoln. His portrait of Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Institution's Gallery of Presidents in Washington, D.C. and his portrait of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower at Gettysburg Battlefield home. His portrait of Eisenhower appeared on the front page of Time on April 4, 1969, the issue that carries Eisenhower's obituary.[citation needed]

Stephens also painted portraits of

Harry Truman and the entire Eisenhower cabinet such as George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury. He also painted the Duke of Windsor.[citation needed
]

U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U. S. Naval Academy, the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas, the Legion of Honor Gallery in Paris; the American Embassy in London, IBM corporate headquarters, Cornell University, Columbia University, Harvard University, the Harry Truman Library and others.[citation needed
]

Family

Stephens and his wife, Evelyn (née Waring) had two sons, Richard Waring, an actor, and Peter John Stephens, a playwright and author.[citation needed]

Death

Thomas Stephens died in 1966 of cancer in New York, aged 79.[citation needed]

Portrait locations and

  • George C. Marshall – National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.[3]
  • Bobby Jones (golfer) – Bobby Jones Collection, United States Golf Association Museum and Library, Liberty Corner, N.J.
  • two portraits of Eisenhower's mother – Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas
  • Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower – Gettysburg War Museum
  • ? – West Point Museum
  • Dwight Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower and Elvira Carlson Doud (Mamie's mother) – Eisenhower National Historic Site, Gettysburg, P.A.
  • Sec. George M. Humphrey – U.S. Treasury
  • ? Winston Churchill painting was at Walter Reed hospital, now location unknown
  • Portraits of Cora Scovil, a renowned mannequin sculptor and artist, and her husband Louis Johnston now in Excelsior Minnesota within private Berghoff Art Collection

Notes

  1. ^ U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  2. ^ "T. E. Stephens Dies". Arizona Daily Star. January 5, 1966. p. 19.
  3. ^ MonkEL (2008-11-18). "Portrait of George C. Marshall by Thomas Edgar Stephens". npg.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-11.

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