biography of Sylvia STONE (1928)

Birth place: Toronto, Ontario

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: privately in Canada; ASL

Exhibited: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1967-69 (solos) & Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1972 (solo); 14 SculptorsóIndustrial Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1969; WMAA biennials, 1968-73; Plastic Presence, Jewish Mus., Milwaukee Art Center & San Francisco, 1970. Awards: CAPS Award, New York State, 1971.

Work: WMAA; Hartford (CT) Atheneum; Xerox Corp., New York; Larry Aldrich Mus., Ridgefield, CT. Commissions: Sunrise Mall, New York, commissioned by Tankoos-Muss Corp., 1973.

Comments: Large-scale environmental sculptor. Preferred media: plexiglas.

Sources: WW73; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 365-66; Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, 313; M. Friedman, Sylvia Stone: Industrial Edge," Art Int. (1970); Irv Sandler, "Sylvia Stone at Emmerich," Art in America (1972)."