Stolen Moments No. 1 (Emily drawing with a green crayon)
Watercolor on Twinrocker heavy height paper, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
From: Stolen Moments Series, 2019
Signed with the artist's "Yummy" chop stamp lower right corner
Sheet size: 12 x 16 1/8 inches
Frame size: 15 3/5 x 19 3/4 inches
Condition: Excellent
Framed in a 1" white shadowbox frame, with OP3 Acrilic. The frame and mounting board match the color of the background of the paper.
Darius Steward is establishing himself as a master of the medium of watercolor and large public murals. In 2018, Steward has created two large public murals, “Breaker of Chains”, a 200’ by 6’ in height mural for the RTA in Cleveland and “Support” in Midtown on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. A new mural project has been commissioned for SUMMA Health Care, Akron, Ohio.
Stewards works are in the permanent collection of Art NEO, Akron Art Museum, Canton Art Museum of Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, Flint Institute of Arts, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art (Indiana University), Stanley Museum of Art (University of Iowa), CARTA, University of Delaware Museum, Swope Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Summa Health Collection, Metro Health Hospital Collection, and the Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, Art Collection.
In addition, Stewards works are in private collections from California to New York.
Steward is the 2018 recipient of the The 2018 Emerging Artist Award of the Cleveland Arts Prize.
Steward was chosen for the juried Front International, The Great Lakes Research, Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, July 21st - August 4th, 2018
Stewards first museum exhibition, Our Separated Selves, recently closed at the Canton Museum of Art. The artist’s second one person museum exhibition Occupying A Space, opened at the Swope Art Museum opened on January 18 and closed on March 3, 2019. This major exhibition was displayed in three galleries and exhibited 54 works on paper.
Kaywin Feldman, then Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, wrote the following commentary regarding a donation of Darius’s work.
“As you well know, Steward uses his extraordinary skill as a watercolorist to add interest and drama to quotidian life. His vivid colors and unusual, eye-catching compositions will make his work a compelling presence in the museum’s galleries. I am particularly excited that this is the first work by Steward to enter Mia’s collection.”
Kaywin assumed her new position as Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, on March 11, 2019.
