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Louis Stone (1902-1984)


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Provence Landscape, c.1929 oil on canvas 23 x 28 i...

Provence Landscape, c.1929
oil on canvas
23 x 28 inches / 58.4 x 71.1 cm

Untitled, c.1929 oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inc...

Untitled, c.1929
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches / 54 x 64.8 cm
 

Untitled, c.1930 oil on canvas 23 1/2 x 29 inches...

Untitled, c.1930
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 29 inches / 59.7 x 73.7 cm
 

Untitled, c.1938 oil on canvasboard 16 x 12 inches...

Untitled, c.1938
oil on canvasboard
16 x 12 inches / 40.6 x 30.5 cm

 

Untitled, c.1938 stucco, oil, and gesso on panel w...

Untitled, c.1938
stucco, oil, and gesso on panel with artist's original painted wood frame
24 x 17 7/8 x 1/8 inches / 61 x 45.4 x 0.3 cm

Untitled, c.1940 oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 17 7/8 inc...

Untitled, c.1940
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 17 7/8 inches / 81 x 45.4 cm

 

Untitled, c.1940 oil on canvas 26 x 38 inches / 66...

Untitled, c.1940
oil on canvas
26 x 38 inches / 66 x 96.5 cm

 

Untitled, c.1940 oil on canvas 33 x 26 inches / 83...

Untitled, c.1940
oil on canvas
33 x 26 inches / 83.8 x 66 cm
signed
 

Untitled, c.1945 oil on canvas 25 x 28 inches / 63...

Untitled, c.1945
oil on canvas
25 x 28 inches / 63.5 x 71.1 cm


Exhibitions


New & Noteworthy

The New York Times, December 6, 2002

The New York Times, December 6, 2002

by Ken Johnson

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The Path to Abstraction, 1928-1945

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Prints & Publications


Artist Information

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
The Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

1923 
Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH

1926
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art summer session, Chester Springs, PA (under Daniel Garber)

1926-7 
Art Students League, New York City

c.1928 
Academie Colorossi, Paris, France

1929 
Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany (under Hans Hofmann)

c.1930 
Andre L’hote’s summer school in Mirmande, France

 

 

1939 
Charles-Fourth Gallery, New York, NY

1950 
Paintings by Louis Stone, Charles-Fourth Gallery, New Hope, PA

1952 
Charles-Fourth Gallery, New Hope, PA

1962 
Paintings by Louis Stone, Baltic Studios, New Hope, PA

1967
Argus Gallery, Madison, NJ
Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ

1969 
Baltic Studios, New Hope, PA

1978 
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

1988 
Louis Stone, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery Ltd.

2002 
Louis Stone: American Modernist, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2005 
Louis Stone: The Path to Abstraction, 1928-1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

c.1930s 
Artists of Southeast France

1935 
Studio of the Valley Road Guest House

1937 
American Artists Congress, New York, NY

1938 
American Artists Congress, New York, NY

1939 
New York Worlds Fair, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1940 
New Jersey Art Fair, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

1941 
Exhibition of Pennsylvania Paintings and Sculpture by New Jersey Artists, Lower Cloister, Madison Hall, The Creative Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1948 
New Hope Art Associates Gallery, New Hope, PA

1949 
Phillips Mill Art Exhibition, Bucks County, New Hope, PA

1958 
American Artists Congress, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Thirty Paintings from the Delaware Valley, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

1962 
Trenton Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Hope Art Associates Gallery, New Hope, PA
Meierhans Galleries, Hagersville, NJ

1969 
Phillips Mill 40th Annual Exhibition, New Hope, PA

1975 
The Alternative View: A Departure from Current Trends, Fred Clark Museum, Carversville, PA

1978 
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

1979
50th Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibition, Phillips Mill Community Association, New Hope, PA

1980 
Works on Paper: Liz Dauber and Louis Stone, Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ

1983 
Phillips Mill 54th Annual Fall Exhibit, Phillips Mill Community Association, New Hope, PA

1984 
American Moderns: 1920-1950, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1985 
Images in Art: Gerald Coarding and Louis Stone, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

1988 
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery Ltd.

1990 
Modern American Art 1920-1955, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions of 20th Century Art, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

1991 
The New Hope Modernists: 1917-1950, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

1992
20th Century Works From the Permanent Collection, The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

1996 
The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

1998 
American Abstract Art of the 1930s and 1940s: The J. Donald Nichols Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Defining the Edge: Early American Abstraction, Selections from the Collection of Dr. Peter B. Fischer, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2001 
The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Up The River: The Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists, The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

2002 
Small Scale - Large Dimension: Early American Abstraction, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

2003  
The New Hope School, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

2005 
Objects of Desire: Treasures from Private Collections, James A. Michener Museum, New Hope, PA

2006 
Selections from the Permanent Collection, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

2009 
Cézanne and American Modernism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

2011
The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

2012
INsite/INchelsea: The Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2013   
American Abstraction, 1930-1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2022   
Graphic Eloquence: American Modernism on Paper from the Collection of Michael T. Ricker, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA