| Stephen Howard Naegle Watercolor Artist |
| The Works of Stephen Naegle - A Catalogue, Page 8 |
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| Thanks to David Naegle, nephew of the artist, who once again sends works from the Naegle Family Collection. Some are early, others are later and document life in Toquerville Utah where Stephen was born. Sept 06 |
| 50. This painting is the same subject as Number 30. The John C. Naegle Winery, in Toquerville Utah or as it is known locally, The Big House. |
| The Big House Detail Wagon, Driver, and Horse |
| The Big House Detail Grounds and Distant Hill |
| The Big House or Naegle Winery In Catalogue page 4 is a young Stephen Naegle holding a painting he did of his fore-father's winery in Toquerville, Utah. Here is that same painting from the 1953 Dorothea Lange Photo, here in color. Stephen was most likely 15 or 16 when this painting was done. This painting is from the David Naegle Collection. |
| 51. Butterfiles, Naegle '56, 1956, Stephen Naegle age 18. Above, the painting as it appears. Left top and left bottom, detail closeups of the painting. |
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| The Butterfly Story Stephen was prone to painting these life-size butterflies on scraps of watercolor paper, just for practice. He was going to throw them away but his mother had other ideas. She told him how much she liked the butterflies and asked if he would make an arrangement of them for her. He cut them out of their individual scraps, arranged them together on a single sheet, painted shadows, antennae, etc. for each of them, then glued them in place as if this were a painting of a butterfly collection. This painting made wings and now resides in Southern California. |