Subject is seated in an armchair facing three-quarter left with both hands resting in his lap. He is wearing a dark suit with the coat unbuttoned to reveal and white shirt and a blue-patterned tie with a gold tie-bar. His light brown hair is parted on his left and he is looking at the viewer with a half-smile on his face.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Artist
Wetmore, Gordon, 1938-2011
Date made
1975 - 1985
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Gerry was born on February 24, 1925, in Chattanooga to Chester Oliver Stephens and Martha Shorter Hamilton Stephens. He graduated from The McCallie School and Washington & Lee University prior to completing post-graduate studies at the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University. Gerry served in all five European Campaigns during World War II, including the Allied Landing at Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, as battalion munitions sergeant and during the Korean War as Finance Corps officer in the Office of the Comptroller Third Army Headquarters. He returned as a WWII veteran to his hometown to engage in a 33-year-long career in banking at American National Bank (SunTrust Bank). He married Estes Carter in 1958 and they had three children, Lucie Howard Stephens Holland, Allison Ward Stephens, and Gerry Underwood Stephens, Jr.. He died in 2018 and is buried in Chattanooga Memorial Park.
