Dick Stone

Abstract Artist

DICK STONE (B. 1925) is an American Artist and an award-winning film director for television commercial advertising.

JULIE STONE, his daughter, created INDUSTRIA COLOR DESIGN when most of her father’s works were distributed to her. Julie, having been raised in the advertising and movie industry has always been surrounded by creative people. Julie herself is an award-winning commercial television producer. She and her father share the same belief, that creative thinkers, be it artist, art director or interior designer share the same driving force for expression, story and beauty.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Dick Stone graduated from Yale University’s School of Fine Arts. He was also the youngest art student ever allowed in the Art Students League of New York at the age of fifteen.

An acclaimed illustrator, photographer and commercial film director during the Golden Age of Advertising (1960’s – 1970’s and into the 1980’s) he continued to paint and create his own works while raising a family.

Stone is an abstract artist and only works with acrylic paint and is a master at manipulating the medium. He’s known as a storyteller. Those who know his work can feel his thinking within the deliberate lines, colors, and patterns in every one of his paintings. Julie, an artist herself, is proud to say her father was her art teacher and the reason she was accepted at Cornell University’s Architecture Art and Planning School.