(1905-1966)
W.L. Stevenson was an 'avant-garde' expressionistic western landscape painter, working primarily in oils. He was known for his broad heavy brushstrokes and sense of spontaneity.

Born in Guelph, Ontario, he moved with his family to Calgary in 1910. He briefly studies drawing under Lars Haukaness at the Provincial Institute of Technology (later the Alberta College of Art) in Calgary, he was mostly self-taught. In the 1950's he was an instructor with the Calgary Art Association.

Although he was expelled from the Calgary Sketch club, along with Maxwell Bate, for being too 'modernistic', he was an early member of the Alberta Society of Artists. Stevenson exhibited with several major Canadian art societies and galleries, including the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Group of Painters, the Montreal Museum of Art, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Biennial of Canadian Art, and the Edmonton Art Gallery. In 1963, Clement Greenberg, noted New York art critic and writer, reviewed Stevenson's work in an issue of Canadian Art which featured one of his paintings on the cover; this brought him significant recognition. Although he sold very few paintings in his lifetime, he now has a high national reputation. Stevenson's paintings are included in the collections of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary and the Calgary Civic Art Collection.

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