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Norman C. Stone was an American psychotherapist, philanthropist, vintner and a collector of modern and contemporary art. Stone served as a staff psychologist at the mental health center for the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement in San Francisco, counseling patients for schizophrenia, crack addiction and depression.
Stone and his wife, Nora Sharpe Stone, began actively collecting contemporary art in the mid 1980s. They 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. The collection is divided among the Stones’ primary residence in San Francisco and their Napa Valley vineyard, Stonescape.
Stone was also 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 were members of the National Committee of the Whitney Museum in New York and the Tate International Council in London. |
