Artist’s Calling
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Though Theo Stavropoulos was an accomplished painter and draftsman, his professional reputation faded during his lifetime. After the New York City gallery that represented him closed in 1980, Stavropoulos spent his last decades making artworks in private, his studio only open to family and friends. Offerings of Light, a survey exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery, presents a first-rate body of work by an artist who today is largely unknown.
Stavropoulos (1930-2007) came of age during the brutal occupation of Greece by the Axis powers. The Nazis imprisoned his parents and, as famine ravaged his country, Stavropoulos joined the Greek Resistance.
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