Photo by Michael Biondo
Best known for his illustrations for the New York Times, The New Yorker and countless children’s books, James Stevenson was a poet, journalist and also a prolific painter on canvas.
Paintings
“Jim writes as if he were sketching and paints as if he were a poet.”
- Kennedy Fraser
“The digital part of the brain (left) governs writing,
while the analog part (right) controls drawing and painting.
Neither side of Jim Stevenson’s brain steps aside to dominate the other.”
- Mary Lanier