Sylvia Stone

Sylvia Stone (born 1928) is a Canadian artist.[1] Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art[1] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2]

Biography

Stone was born in 1928 in Toronto, Ontario.[2] She had two older sisters.[3] When she was two years old, Stone, her siblings, and her mother left Stone's father in the middle of the night.[3] Her mother was unable to support her children on her own.[3] Stone was subsequently sent to Children's Aid homes while her sisters were sent to help on local farms.[3] At the age of six, Stone was placed back with her mother and sisters.[3] The Great Depression severely impacted the family, and they were forced to move several times.[3] It was during this time that Stone began to draw.[3]

Stone went to a high school for the arts called Central Tech.[3] During this period she lived alone, as her sisters married and her mother had moved out west.[3] Her mother sent her rent money during this time, and after school Stone worked at Woolworth's.[3] At the age of sixteen, Stone was forced to start working full time in order to support herself.[3] She often worked night shifts in order to still go to school during the day.[3]

Stone moved to New York in 1946 at the age of seventeen.[3]

At the age of twenty-two Stone married and had a child.[3] She continued to practice art during this time, which displeased her husband's family.[3] This ultimately led to their divorce.[3] During this time Stone studied with Harry Sternberg, Morris Kanto, and Vyclav Vytlacil.[3]

In 1959, Stone first met the painter Al Held.[4] The two married ten years later in 1969.[4] They divorced in 1986.[4]

References
  1. "Sylvia Stone". www.whitney.org.
  2. "Sylvia Stone". Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  3. Munro, Eleanor (2000). Originals: American women artists. Da Capo. ISBN 0306809559. OCLC 902208717.
  4. "Al Held Foundation". alheldfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-05-01.


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