In his career of over 35 years, Bradley Stevens has forged a reputation as one of America’s leading realist painters. His style is contemporary realism rooted in classical training, yet boldly depicting the modern world with his penetrating eye. Stevens is unique among his contemporaries for his exceptional achievements in the three domains of representational art: portraiture, landscapes and figurative cityscapes.
He frequently works on commission, and many of the commissioned paintings are on a large scale for public and private spaces. Stevens has painted the portraits of luminaries and leaders in the fields of law, education, business, medicine, philanthropy and politics. His portrait of Vernon Jordan is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Other works hang in the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Depart- ment of State, Monticello and Mount Vernon
