Will Henry Stevens

"Will Henry Stevens (1881-1949) was born in Vevay, Indiana. When he was ten years old he took private art lessons with a local artist. He enrolled in high school in 1896, spending one year at a preparatory school at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. In 1901 he enrolled in the Cincinnati Art Academy. In a 1905 edition of American Art Annual Stevens was listed as an employee of Rookwood Pottery, a painter and an associate of the Society of Western Artists. Stevens moved to New York City in 1906 to study at the Art Students League. His teachers in Cincinnati and in New York included Jonas Lie, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Vincent Nowottny, Frank Duveneck, L. H. Meakin and Van Dearing Perrine. Stevens had his first one-man exhibition at the New Gallery, New York City in 1907. He won the Foulke Prize at the annual art show in Richmond, Indiana, in 1914.

By 1916 Stevens and his family began taking vacations in the Blue Ridge. [Source: unknown and being researched]