Don R. Stivers, Artist, 83, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112202142.html

November 23, 2009

Don R. Stivers Artist

Don R. Stivers, 83, an artist who specialized in painting military scenes,
including depictions of the Civil War and of Buffalo Soldiers, died Nov. 5
[2009] at Washington Hospital Center. He had complications from a stent
procedure.

His art included a depiction of actor John Wayne in the 1959 Civil War film
"The Horse Soldiers" and scenes of the World War II battle of Bastogne. His
art was displayed at the Pentagon, on military bases and at the Pritzker
Military Library in Chicago.

Mr. Stivers began drawing during World War II, when he served in the Navy in
the Pacific. After the war, he graduated from what is now the California
College of the Arts in San Francisco and went into commercial illustration.

In the mid-1960s, he moved to Wilton, Conn., and drew book jackets, magazine
covers and movie posters. The Greenwich Workshop, a publishing company, made
limited-edition lithographs of Mr. Stivers's artwork, which was sold to
galleries across the country.

Mr. Stivers and his wife, who was also an artist, formed a publishing
company in 1984, Stivers Publishing, to distribute their work. They settled
in the Washington area about 1990 and lived in Lovettsville, in Loudoun
County.

Donald Ray Stivers was born in Superior, Wis. His wife of 56 years, Beverly
McCrary Stivers, died last year.

Survivors include two children, Kent A. Stivers of Redding, Conn., and Tracy
Stivers of Leesburg, and a granddaughter.

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Adam Bernstein