150th Anniversary of The Firing On Fort Sumter
To honor the 150th anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War being fired at Ft. Sumpter, SC on April 12th, I am pleased to announce the release of Rebs, by Don Stivers. The image size is 18"x 23.5" with an overall size of 22.5"x 27.5." The edition size is 2000 S/N with 150 AP's and sells for $250 and $300 respectively. The unique giclee reproduction technique on etching paper brings the realistic qualities of this image to life like nothing else. I'm confident you will agree that Rebs will make a stunning addition to your Civil War collection... Thank you for your continued support.
*All The Last Frontier prints are giclees.
Before my Dad passed away, I made him a promise...
He was very proud of Stivers Publishing, which my parents started when it was virtually unheard of for an artist to publish their own work. I promised to keep it going for as long as I could.
In those first few weeks after his death, I stumbled across an auction website that had sold two of Dad's original oils from the 1970's that I had never seen before. Looking at these images, painted over 30 years ago, I was particularly struck by the preciseness of the style. The illustrative quality made the subjects appear to jump off the page. I felt compelled to hunt down these seemingly forgotten works. I believed that collectors would be equally enthralled by them.
The result is The Last Frontier Collection, a series of prints created from virtually unknown original oil paintings. The limited edition prints are produced in giclee to retain all the fine details. They are signed and numbered by me, embossed with the artist's signature, and printed on Hahnemuhle German etching paper.
-- Tracy Stivers
Don Stivers' Bio
For
nearly six decades, Don Stivers has captured the poignancy and peril of history’s
most storied battles, from Bull Run to Bastogne to Baghdad. Whether his subject
is significant to our nation as a whole, or of deep personal import to the
individuals involved in each painting, Don’s attention to accuracy
and emotional detail has made him one of our generation’s most appreciated
military artists, and his prints are collected and cherished by soldiers and
enthusiasts the world over.
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Don Stivers’ interest in art began during childhood as he copied newspaper
comics in his hometown of Superior, Wisconsin. He did portraits of friends
in school and during two years of service in the U.S. Navy. His formal art
training began at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
He
started his professional career—as have many of America’s finest
artists—in the commercial art field, and spent 15 years at it on the
West Coast until moving his family to the East. It was a decision that was
to prove monumental in his career.
Following a natural inclination towards
American History as a subject for fine art, Don, in 1978, began a series of
paintings on the Westward Expansion. In 1984 he began painting Civil War subjects.
With the help of professional historians and driven by his own desire to know
the most intricate visual details of the subjects he portrays, he has created
some of the most remarkable military art of this century.
His focus on the
Buffalo Soldier, beginning with “Tracking Victorio” in 1988 shone
light on a subject that had rarely been chronicled in military art before.
The Buffalo Soldier prints ignited such an overwhelmingly positive response
that very often his limited editions were sold out within hours of their release.
His original works can be found on display at forts Belvoir, Drum, Wainwright, Benning, Hood, Meade, Leavenworth, Sill, Riley, Campbell, the Army War College, the Pentagon, and are the pride of many public museums and countless private collections
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