Harold Stevenson (1929-2018)

Harold Stevenson (1929–2018) was an American painter whose monumental and erotically charged depictions of the male nude positioned him on the provocative edge of mid-century Pop and figurative art. Born in Idabel, Oklahoma, and later active in New York and Paris, Stevenson moved fluidly between the worlds of Andy Warhol and Yves Klein, while maintaining a fiercely individual practice rooted in desire, myth, and corporeal grandeur. His most renowned work, “The New Adam” (1963), transforms the male body into a site of both sensuality and transcendence, reflecting his lifelong fascination with beauty, heroism, and the divine in flesh.