Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Judith Stone lived her young life in Great Neck, Long Island, a short train ride from New York City. Her parents’ passionate interest in the arts, all the arts - theater, music, dance, and the visua arts - generated weekly trips to Manhattan, where her family took full advantage of the cultural riches available in that cultural mecca. Intellectually nourished as well by her parents’ laden bookshelves, Stone attended Vassar College, where she earned a Magna cum laude B.A. degree in English and French literature. The artist then continued her literature studies at Harvard University’s School of Education, earning an M.A.T. that, at the time, she thought would lead to a career in literary criticism and teaching. However, six years later, increasingly aware of her real creative bent, Stone moved laterally into the visual arts, ultimately dedicating what is now approaching four decades to the studio work that is the focus of her professional activity. A second master’s degree, an M.F.A. in Drawing and Printmaking at the University of Colorado, Boulder, structured and intensified a lifelong affinity for drawing that forms the core of her mixed media body of work on paper.

While fully dedicated to her studio career, Stone by no means abandoned the study of literature that defined her undergraduate years, Straddling academic departments, Stone lectured for 35 years in both American and British literature and art, design, and architectural history on university campuses in Denver, Philadelphia, Tokyo, and Burlington, Vermont.

As eclectic as Stone’s professional vita is her travel experience. She has lived in Paris, Accra, Ghana, and Tokyo, each for one-year periods, and has travelled throughout the British Isles, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, and Israel. Moreover, equally important in the development of her work is her extensive travel in the United States, so that she is familiar as well with the enormous range of topographical and cultural environments one can discover in the country of her birth. It is indeed the breadth of observation made through travel, informed and enriched by near-obsessive reading, that provides the source material for her work.

Stone’s drawings and mixed media works on paper figure in public and private collections throughout the United States and Japan. A MacDowell Colony Resident Fellow, She is included in Who’s Who in American Art and Who’s Who in American Women.

Judith Stone is represented by Galleria 360, Florence, Italy