Sylvia Stone

Sylvia Stone (1928 – September 5, 2011) was a Canadian sculptor. and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was a tenured professor at Brooklyn College and a notable Abstract artist at the New York School. She is best known for her large-scale sculptures made from Plexiglass.

Early life Stone was born in 1928 in Toronto, Ontario.

Stone was a gifted student and attended Central Tech, an arts high school in Toronto. During this period, she lived alone, as her sisters married and her mother moved out west. Her mother sent her rent money during this time, and after school Stone worked at Woolworth's. At the age of sixteen, Stone began supporting herself, working full-time on the night shift at a war plant, so that she could attend school during the day. Her work began to be recognized and shown more frequently, and she shared two studio spaces with Held, in Manhattan and Boiceville, New York. It was also inspired by Cubism and Bauhaus. Despite not having a graduate degree herself, Stone taught undergraduate and graduate art courses at Brooklyn College for several years. She began by substituting a small number of Ad Reinhardt's courses, before becoming an assistant and then full professor in the 1970s. In 1975, Stone was included in the exhibit "Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture" at the Whitney Museum. Stone died from an illness on September 5, 2011.