| Don Stone | ||
| Birth Date: March 27, 1929 |
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| Death Date: March 12, 2015 Artist Gallery |
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| Outside for inspiration, inside for creation lives within this motto. Don Stone, was born March 27, 2919, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Hester Bell and Arthur Dimick Stone. After graduating from Gloucester High School and Vesper George School Of Art, he was drafted into the Navy, where he served as a Gunnery Yeoman on a destroyer. While there, he painted portraits of the ship's officers.
In the early 1950s, he realized that he wanted to be a fine artist. In 1954, he was invited by fellow artist Paul Strisik to go on a painting trip to Monhegan Island, Maine. He fell in love with the island and spent the rest of his life painting this beautiful place and the people who lived there.
During the summers he ranges from the New England seacoast to the valleys of the Amish in Pennsylvania, capturing in oils the essence of his native region. Winter finds him retreating to his studio, where egg tempera or watercolor becomes a principle medium. Stone moves freely among the three mediums.
He was a full member of the National Academy of Design, A Dolfin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, member of the Rockport Art Association and the New England Watercolor Society. In addition to his love of art, Don had a lifelong love of music. He was a well-known banjo player and performed with the Gloucester group Loblolly Five. He also played fiddle and especially mandolin.
For Stone, art is a way of living, almost a religious type of thing, generated by the mood of the day, by the excitement of color or lack of color, by involvement with the place.
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