He lived in and around Tucson, Arizona from the 1930s though his death in 1974 exhibiting extensively in the Southwest, throughout the United States and Mexico.
In the 1930s Stevens moved to Tucson and for many years showed regularly at the Arizona Inn and was associated with the Gerry Peirce Gallery.
At the start of World War II he took at job with Consolidated Vultee plant in Tucson, which manufactured aircraft.
His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Wood Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont; Rockland Gallery, Maine; and the Ford Foundation and International Business Machine Collections.
[4] On December 20, 1974 Sevens died at his home in the colonial Mexican Silver town of Alamos.