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Page 8 West Vancouver Historical Society September 2005 West Van High School Graduates Have Always Made Their Mark: Maureen Stevenson, 1940 Two Entries from the West Van News: April 19, 1940 Students’ Murals to Be Hung at West Vancouver High Representing “A sound body and a sound mind,” two large mural paintings, to be hung in West Vancouver High School’s entrance hallway, are being made by Maureen Stevenson. Murals represent logging, fishing, and modern transportation are being painted by Beth Simpson, Chiyeko Okino, Edith Lindsay and Maude Bernadine as art-class projects. The paintings will be hung in the school auditorium and study hall. April 8, 1943 Lieutenant Maureen Stevenson, C.W.A.C., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Stevenson, 2130 Argyle Avenue, graduated last Friday from McDonald College in Quebec, and has been posted to the training staff at the College. flat and three-dimensional images invoked by her conscious and sub-conscious involvement with the news of world affairs. Art has been of primary interest in Maureen’s family for generations. Her mother was a graduate of the Royal School of Art Needlework, London. Her aunt, Phyllis Stevenson, showed in the Royal Academy and painted until her death in 1967. Maureen is distantly related to Marty Stevenson Cassatt, America’s foremost woman painter of the impressionist era. Maureen has studied with Martin Snipper, Boyd Allen, John Haley, JeiTold Ballaine, Felix Ruvolo, James McRae, Elmer Bischoff, Robert Hartman and Pomadoro of Italy. Her work is held in private collections in England, Canada, Sweden, Egypt, Spain, Mexico and the United States. She has exhibited at Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Art Commission Gallery and numerous juried shows in the Bay Area. From an arts publication “Translations in Paper”: Maureen Greta Stevenson Marshall, Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa [Maureen was] born in England in 1921 of English-Irish parents, [and] transported from a large country home at the age of three to the wilds of British Columbia to live in a three-room shack on her father’s homestead. The nearest neighbors were seven miles away. She commenced formal education at the age of seven when her family gave up the homestead and moved closer to an area of civilization boasting a one-room school three miles away. Eventually she attended North and West Vancouver schools where her interest in art and painting was stimulated. After serving in the Canadian Army as an office during World War II she married, raised a daughter and moved to California. She attended Diablo Valley College, where she earned an Associate of Arts degree with honors and the University of California at Berkeley, where she attained her B.A. in Letters and Sciences, cum laude, class of ’69 and an M.A. in Art. As an undergraduate at the University of California she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has worked in oils, executed murals using Fresco techniques and more recently, acrylics and paper. Her “Studio Wall” series in acrylics covers a unique area of illusionary realism with spatial manipulation, and embodies elements of personal relationships and interests. In her present works, using a palette of papers, she builds an intricate fabric of Maureen was President of San Francisco Women Artists from 1977-1979 and will be listed in the 17th edition of Who’s Who in the West in 1980. Rest assured that the multi-talented Maureen bears no responsibility for the rogue apostrophe under the photo below. UT^CLSUKe^K S t LLcieyit's OoitnciL What Vintage 1940 may have lacked in punctuation acuity was more than made up for by artistic and literary talent. This was the year of Joan Marentette, Chikeyo Okino, Barbara Kelly and, of course, Maureen herself.