Louis Stone Mixed Media

1902-1984

Louis Stone was born in Findlay, Ohio in 1902 and received formal art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts summer sessions, and the Art Students League in New York City with Boardman Robinson and Thomas Hart Benton. While painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts during the summer of 1927, Stone met artist Carolyn Hoag, whom he married later that fall. Following their marriage, the Stones lived in Europe for five years, spending most of their time in Southern France. While abroad, Stone studied with Hans Hofmann in St. Tropez and later, at the Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Munich, the Academie Colorossi in Paris, and with André L'hote at the artist's summer school in Mirmande, France. He also lived and painted in Paul Cézanne's former home/studio in Aix-en-Provence. Stone's studies in Europe laid the foundation for his early non-objective work. Stone returned to the United States in 1933 and lived for a brief period in Woodstock, New York before traveling to Florida where Stone and painter James S. Morris co-founded the Stone-Morris School of Fine Arts in Jacksonville. In 1935, he settled in Lambertville, New Jersey, a town near New Hope, Pennsylvania that was home to an active artistic and intellectual community. Stone reunites with close friend Charles Evans, and becomes a leading member of the recently formed Independents, a modernist artist's collective. Like other associations of American artists during this period, the Independents were struggling to gain recognition in a culture that was not particularly receptive to abstract art. Stone exhibited regularly with the Independents and worked to establish the Cooperative Painting Project. Inspired by the performances of improvisational jazz musicians, the Cooperative Painting Project held visual "jam sessions," where the three artists would work together on a single painting, signing their finished artwork with the combined name "Ramstonev." Although Stone frequently collaborated and exchanged ideas with other members of the Independents (including B.J.O. Nordfeldt, John Nevin, Lloyd Ney, and Elsie Driggs), his work from the mid-1930s and 1940s retains a distinctive style that demonstrates a mastery of the modernist lessons he learned in Europe, while asserting an innovative use of flat color to suggest three dimensional space. Stone once remarked that he wanted "to keep his colors alive," and consequently, his work contains visually complex color harmonies that demonstrate his willingness to break the stylistic conventions of the School of Paris in favor of a more idiosyncratic palette. In addition to his association with the Independents, Stone exhibited in the 1939 New York Worlds Fair, as well as in regional museums and galleries throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. He worked for the WPA easel project, painting canvases for murals in various public buildings throughout the United States. Stone continued to paint and travel extensively with his family throughout North America until his death in 1984 at the age of 82 at his home near Lambertville.

Artist: Louis Stone

Louis StoneAbstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern, c. 1940

$33,000

Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern

By Louis Stone

Located in New York, NY

Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern Louis Stone (1902-1984) Abstract 21 x 16 inches Mixed media on board, c. 1940 ...

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1940s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Gouache, Board

Louis StoneLarge Louis Stone Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media, 1980

$8,000

Large Louis Stone Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

By Louis Stone

Located in New York, NY

Louis K. Stone (1902-1984) Untitled, 1980 Mixed media on paper Framed: 52 1/4 x 42 1/4 in. Signed lower right: Stone 80 An abstract painter, Louis Stone settled in Lambertville, New ...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Robert Noel BlairRainstorm Sunset, 1960's

$3,000

H 22 in W 30 in

Rainstorm Sunset

By Robert Noel Blair

Located in Buffalo, NY

You are viewing a modernist American watercolor painting by Robert Noel Blair. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and te...

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American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Watercolor

Clinton HillClinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction, 1951

$900

H 11 in W 8 in

Clinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction

By Clinton Hill

Located in New York, NY

Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Gouache

Morris GravesMorris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing, 1950

$35,000

H 19 in W 25 in

Morris Graves, Abandon Nest, 1950, drawing

By Morris Graves

Located in New York, NY

This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature. Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Ink, Watercolor

Louis Stone“Untitled, 1946” New Hope Modernist Small Abstract Bucks County Lambertville NJ, 1946

$1,950

H 15.5 in W 16 in D 1 in

“Untitled, 1946” New Hope Modernist Small Abstract Bucks County Lambertville NJ

By Louis Stone

Located in Yardley, PA

“Untitled, 1946” by Louis K. Stone (1902-1984). A strong and charming example of mid-century American modernism by one of the most important artists working in New Hope, PA. This wa...

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1940s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Watercolor

Samuel Bolton Colburn1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields, circa 1935

$2,450

H 11.75 in W 18.5 in

1930s American Modern Farm Landscape Watercolor with Barns, Windmill & Fields

By Samuel Bolton Colburn

Located in Denver, CO

This original watercolor painting by acclaimed American artist Samuel Bolton Colburn captures a quiet farmstead nestled in a mountain valley. Rendered with Colburn’s signature contro...

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1930s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Watercolor

John MarinSunset, 1914

$38,087

H 25.4 in W 28.15 in D 0.79 in

Sunset

By John Marin

Located in London, GB

Maine became an important muse for Marin during his summer vacations, which is exampled in the present work ‘Sunset’. Marin first visited Maine in 1914, meaning ‘Sunset’ was one of h...

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Early 20th Century American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Paper

Charles Ragland BunnellCharles Ragland Bunnell "Quitting Time" 1941 Abstract Modern Painting, 1941

$6,750

H 32.25 in W 27.75 in D 0.75 in

Charles Ragland Bunnell "Quitting Time" 1941 Abstract Modern Painting

By Charles Ragland Bunnell

Located in Denver, CO

This rare 1941 work by American modernist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Quitting Time, is a compelling example from the artist’s important Black and Blue Series, a body...

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1940s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor

John von WichtUntitled-059 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht, c.1960

$4,750

H 17 in W 25 in

Untitled-059 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht

By John von Wicht

Located in Hudson, NY

This abstract artwork is one of a group of over 100 pieces personally selected by the artist, and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969. Please note that this painting was never ...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Milton Avery"Country Haircut", 1945

$243,750

H 22 in W 30 in

"Country Haircut"

By Milton Avery

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965). Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...

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1940s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Gouache, Paper

Wes OlmstedAbstract Landscape, 1965

$750

H 14 in W 11 in

Abstract Landscape

By Wes Olmsted

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.

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1960s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Andre DelfauA Stylish, Colorful, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Abstract Geometric Textile Design, circa 1955

$385

H 26 in W 20 in D 0.13 in

A Stylish, Colorful, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Abstract Geometric Textile Design

By Andre Delfau

Located in Chicago, IL

A stylish, colorful 1950s Mid-century Modern abstract geometric textile design (depicting a polychrome patterned design of horizontal bands and spheres in red, blue and green tones) ...

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1950s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Gouache, Graphite

Andre DelfauA Stylish, Colorful, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Abstract Geometric Textile Design, circa 1955

$385

H 26 in W 20 in D 0.13 in

A Stylish, Colorful, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Abstract Geometric Textile Design

By Andre Delfau

Located in Chicago, IL

A stylish, colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern abstract geometric textile design (depicting a polychrome Wedge Star pattern in red, white and blue tones) by notable costume, set and fa...

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1950s American Modern Louis Stone Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite

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