Dr. Joyce Hill Stoner Receives 2011 College Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and Conservation
The Jury that selected Dr. Stoner for this honor wrote:
Dr. Stoner is a highly respected scholar, professor and conservator of paintings, and a superb recipient of this prestigious award. Both her educational and research interests reflect her many years of interdisciplinary focus on art history and conservation; her numerous articles, book chapters and exhibition catalogues attest as well to a lifetime of scholarly excellence. As one nominator wrote, "…three decades ago the prospect of conservation as a scholarly discipline was, at best, nascent if not merely notional. Since that time conservation scholarship has come to embody inquiries that include the investigation of an artist's materials and techniques, the documentation of a contemporary artist's ideas and intentions, the history of conservation, the development of new techniques in the conservation of art, to name but a few. Dr. Stoner has contributed essential research in each of these areas and has thereby fundamentally shaped the discipline."
Both an art historian and a practicing paintings conservator, Dr. Stoner has treated paintings for many museums and private collectors. She was senior conservator of the team for the five-year project of examination and treatment of Whistler's Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and supervised the treatment of a 19' x 60' N. C. Wyeth mural, Apotheosis of the Family, in 1998. She has carried out treatments for Colonial Williamsburg, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Brandywine River Museum, the DuPont Company, the Wyeth family, and various private collectors. Her portrait was painted by Andrew Wyeth.
Dr. Stoner founded the first Ph.D. program for Art Conservation in North America and now serves as the Director of the University of Delaware's Preservation Studies Doctoral Program. From 1982 to 1997 she was director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum and at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She served as Managing Editor for Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts for 17 years, and has served on that organization's editorial board for the section on paintings conservation since 1987. Dr. Stoner has written over 80 articles or book chapters. She is co-editing a multi-author book on The Conservation of Easel Paintings, to be published in 2012.
"Joyce has brought an extraordinary combination of knowledge and enthusiasm to the field of art conservation," said Lawrence L. Reger, President of Heritage Preservation. "Her commitment to communicating with students and a broad public will enrich the preservation of cultural heritage for generations."
Dr. Stoner continues an active program of treating paintings in the presence of the undergraduate and graduate students she is supervising. She curated the show Factory Work: Warhold, Wyeth, and Basquiat that appeared in three venues in 2006-07. She is currently working on another exhibition, Wyeth Vertigo for the Shelburne Museum for summer 2012. She is also actively involved with research on preservation of outdoor murals through Heritage Preservation's Rescue Public Murals project.
Dr. Stoner received a B. A. from the College of William and Mary, an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Delaware.
The award will be presented to Dr. Stoner in February in New York during the College Art Association's 2011 Annual Meeting. A second celebration will coincide with the Heritage Preservation Annual Meeting to be held June 1 in Philadelphia.