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Welcome to Don Stivers Limited Edition Prints
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.
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.
Many of his originals are currently on loan to the prestigious Pritzker Military Library, while his individual works are on display at Fort’s Belvoir, Drum, Wainwright, Benning, Hood, Leavenworth, Campbell, Eustis, Myer, Sill, Riley, the Army War College, the Pentagon, and are the pride of many public museums and countless private collections. Read Don Stivers' Bio » « Hide Don's 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.
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.
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.
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