Norman C. Stone

Norman C. Stone

Norman C. Stone (born April 28, 1939) is a psychotherapist, philanthropist, vintner and major American collector of modern and contemporary art.[1]

Biography

Stone, son of prominent Chicago businessman, insurance industry pioneer and self-help book author W. Clement Stone, was born in Evanston, Illinois. He holds a B.A. in economics from Stanford University and a doctorate degree from the Wright Institute Graduate School of Social-clinical Psychology in Berkeley, California.

Since 1980, Stone has served as a staff psychologist at the mental health center for the government-funded Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement in San Francisco, counseling patients for everything from schizophrenia and crack addiction to depression.[2]

An art enthusiast from early on, Stone studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute before attending the Wright Institute. Under the tutelage of Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services in New York., Stone began actively collecting contemporary art in the mid 1980’s. Since that time, he and his wife, Norah Sharpe Stone, have acquired major pieces from important contemporary artists such as Jan de Cock, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Cady Noland, Richard Prince, Richard Serra, Keith Tyson and Christopher Wool. The Stones’ collection also features works from such seminal artists as Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Bellmer and Tony Conrad.[3]

The collection is divided among the Stones’ primary residence in San Francisco and also their Napa Valley wine estate, Stonescape. The latter property features a unique 5,750-square-foot (534 m2) art cave designed by Brooklyn architectural firm Bade Stageberg Cox, as well as a pool and pavilion conceptualized by James Turrell, an artist noted for his famed Skyspaces and executed by Jim Jennings. The landscape was designed by Tom Leader.[4]

An active philanthropist in his personal life, Stone is president of the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation as well as a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Both he and wife Norah are members of the National Committee of the Whitney Museum in New York, and the Tate International Council in London. He is also a co-founder of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, California.

Stonescape is located in the Diamond Mountain District AVA of the Napa Valley appellation. Since the 1990s, the property has produced critically acclaimed Merlot wines under the Azalea Springs label.[5] The Stones replanted their vineyards in 2002 with premium cabernet sauvignon vines producing wine under the AZS label, with the intention of bottling future vintages under the Stonescape Wines label. Stone is a member of the Napa Valley Vintners, a non-profit trade association.

References

  1. ^ Hamlin, Jesse. “For the Love of Art: Bay Area gaining international recognition for its increasingly number of art collectors,” San Francisco Chronicle. April 16, 2000. Retrieved on October 20, 2007. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/04/16/PK92699.DTL
  2. ^ Zinko, Carolyne.“Trading Places.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 16, 2006. Retrieved October 18, 2007. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/16/LVGAIJSQQ01.DTL
  3. ^ Zinko, Carolyne. “In a Wine Country cave, couple builds one-of-a-kind museum,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 3, 2007.
  4. ^ Viladas, Pilar. “Insider Art.” New York Times Magazine. December 2, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02design-t.html
  5. ^ Spurrier, Steven, "Spurrier's choice: Best New World Red." Decanter Magazine, May 2002

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