"Celestial Height" - Stephen Sands

"Celestial Height", by Stephen Sands, 1988 Oil on Canvas with original Koa Frame Canvas size: 19" wide x 23" high, Frame size: 25" wide x 29" high Mr. Stephen Sands was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island on March 2nd 1930. He begun his artistic career in 1964 when he sold his first painting in Hawaii from the famed Artist's fence in front of the Honolulu zoo.Though that experience launched Stephen's career as an artist, his beginnings took root when he studied art and architecture for four years at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He also was privileged to work with the world famous landscaped artist, the late Gordon Harris. Known to his friends and colleagues as simply "Stephen", and since that first painting in 1964, Sands has enjoyed the world as viewed through the eyes of an artist. In 1971 he embarked on an island odyssey that took him to New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, New Hebrides, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti and other islands of the South Pacific as well as to Alaska and Mexic