[3][4] Her mother, Ellen Welles Stevens,[5] could trace their ancestry back to 12th century England and passed down a lifetime "fascination with lineage.

Lacerba a futurist literary journal based out of Florence, Italy acknowledged Stevens in their writing for her exhibit.

In an article for The Popular Science Monthly, she articulated her vision: "A futurist artist in Italy, seeing an ordinary street car go by, realizes the future possibilities of power and speed, and he begins to paint great trains going so fast that they lose their definite form in the lines of direction.

Something is always happening in a futurist's pictures, and the great variety of color and changing lines helps to convey this impression."

One work that has is Dynamic Velocity of Interborough Rapid Transit Power Station at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The couple returned to America, arriving in Boston on August 14, 1920, on the British steamship Persian Prince, via China.

The wedding was widely reported and American Art News identified him as a son of the last Prime Minister of Russia, Prince Nikolai Dmitriyevich Golitsyn.