From WHO'S WHO IN TOPEKA 1905
STONE, GEORGE M.--Born, Topeka Dec. 5, 1858; son of Jesse and Sarah (Packard) Stone; married Marie Lamy, 1891; studied art in Paris under Boulanger, Lefebre, Bonnat and Roll; returned to Topeka, 1891, and took charge of art school formerly conducted by George E. Hopkins; now instructor, drawing and painting, Reid-Stone School of Art; painter: Refugiam Peccatorum, owned by H. S. Crowell, Boston; Old Cabbage Woman, owned by A. A. Robinson; Bishop Thomas and wife, owned by Lotus Club, N.Y . City; the Studebaker family; when the Fodder's in the Shock, in art gallery, Topeka Free Public Library. School: Crawford Bldg. 501 Jackson.
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Sent by Find A Grave contributor dlherrmann:
first wife: Marie Lamy
second wife: May Hull
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Cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society:
lot owner: George M. Stone
date of burial: 11/4/31
late residence: Topeka
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer
interment authorized by Robert Stone
From Ichabod Notables, Fall 2014, Two of Three Issues:
George Melville Stone (1858-1931)
George Melville Stone was an internationally known portrait and landscape painter. He attended Kansas State Normal School in Emporia, Kan., and studied art in Paris 1887-91. He co-founded, with Albert Turner Reid, the Reid-Stone School of Art, which affiliated with Washburn in 1903 and moved on campus into Boswell Hall in 1906. Stone taught drawing and painting at the school 1902-09 and 1916-18. The Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection holds 20 of his works, 13 of which are portraits and include Joab Mulvane, Lilla Day Monroe and Washburn President Frank Knight Sanders. His work is in numerous collections, including the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif.; Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dodge City, Kan.; and St. Francis Health, Topeka. "Transfiguration" is in Topeka's Grace Cathedral. "Spirit of Kansas" is on display in the Kansas governor's conference room of the Kansas Capitol, which also features historical murals on the first floor that were painted by David Overmyer, one of Stone's students.
STONE, GEORGE M.--Born, Topeka Dec. 5, 1858; son of Jesse and Sarah (Packard) Stone; married Marie Lamy, 1891; studied art in Paris under Boulanger, Lefebre, Bonnat and Roll; returned to Topeka, 1891, and took charge of art school formerly conducted by George E. Hopkins; now instructor, drawing and painting, Reid-Stone School of Art; painter: Refugiam Peccatorum, owned by H. S. Crowell, Boston; Old Cabbage Woman, owned by A. A. Robinson; Bishop Thomas and wife, owned by Lotus Club, N.Y . City; the Studebaker family; when the Fodder's in the Shock, in art gallery, Topeka Free Public Library. School: Crawford Bldg. 501 Jackson.
Added by JH
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Sent by Find A Grave contributor dlherrmann:
first wife: Marie Lamy
second wife: May Hull
********************
Cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society:
lot owner: George M. Stone
date of burial: 11/4/31
late residence: Topeka
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer
interment authorized by Robert Stone
From Ichabod Notables, Fall 2014, Two of Three Issues:
George Melville Stone (1858-1931)
George Melville Stone was an internationally known portrait and landscape painter. He attended Kansas State Normal School in Emporia, Kan., and studied art in Paris 1887-91. He co-founded, with Albert Turner Reid, the Reid-Stone School of Art, which affiliated with Washburn in 1903 and moved on campus into Boswell Hall in 1906. Stone taught drawing and painting at the school 1902-09 and 1916-18. The Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection holds 20 of his works, 13 of which are portraits and include Joab Mulvane, Lilla Day Monroe and Washburn President Frank Knight Sanders. His work is in numerous collections, including the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif.; Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dodge City, Kan.; and St. Francis Health, Topeka. "Transfiguration" is in Topeka's Grace Cathedral. "Spirit of Kansas" is on display in the Kansas governor's conference room of the Kansas Capitol, which also features historical murals on the first floor that were painted by David Overmyer, one of Stone's students.
From WHO'S WHO IN TOPEKA 1905
STONE, GEORGE M.--Born, Topeka Dec. 5, 1858; son of Jesse and Sarah (Packard) Stone; married Marie Lamy, 1891; studied art in Paris under Boulanger, Lefebre, Bonnat and Roll; returned to Topeka, 1891, and took charge of art school formerly conducted by George E. Hopkins; now instructor, drawing and painting, Reid-Stone School of Art; painter: Refugiam Peccatorum, owned by H. S. Crowell, Boston; Old Cabbage Woman, owned by A. A. Robinson; Bishop Thomas and wife, owned by Lotus Club, N.Y . City; the Studebaker family; when the Fodder's in the Shock, in art gallery, Topeka Free Public Library. School: Crawford Bldg. 501 Jackson.
Added by JH
********************
Sent by Find A Grave contributor dlherrmann:
first wife: Marie Lamy
second wife: May Hull
********************
Cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society:
lot owner: George M. Stone
date of burial: 11/4/31
late residence: Topeka
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer
interment authorized by Robert Stone
From Ichabod Notables, Fall 2014, Two of Three Issues:
George Melville Stone (1858-1931)
George Melville Stone was an internationally known portrait and landscape painter. He attended Kansas State Normal School in Emporia, Kan., and studied art in Paris 1887-91. He co-founded, with Albert Turner Reid, the Reid-Stone School of Art, which affiliated with Washburn in 1903 and moved on campus into Boswell Hall in 1906. Stone taught drawing and painting at the school 1902-09 and 1916-18. The Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection holds 20 of his works, 13 of which are portraits and include Joab Mulvane, Lilla Day Monroe and Washburn President Frank Knight Sanders. His work is in numerous collections, including the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif.; Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dodge City, Kan.; and St. Francis Health, Topeka. "Transfiguration" is in Topeka's Grace Cathedral. "Spirit of Kansas" is on display in the Kansas governor's conference room of the Kansas Capitol, which also features historical murals on the first floor that were painted by David Overmyer, one of Stone's students.
STONE, GEORGE M.--Born, Topeka Dec. 5, 1858; son of Jesse and Sarah (Packard) Stone; married Marie Lamy, 1891; studied art in Paris under Boulanger, Lefebre, Bonnat and Roll; returned to Topeka, 1891, and took charge of art school formerly conducted by George E. Hopkins; now instructor, drawing and painting, Reid-Stone School of Art; painter: Refugiam Peccatorum, owned by H. S. Crowell, Boston; Old Cabbage Woman, owned by A. A. Robinson; Bishop Thomas and wife, owned by Lotus Club, N.Y . City; the Studebaker family; when the Fodder's in the Shock, in art gallery, Topeka Free Public Library. School: Crawford Bldg. 501 Jackson.
Added by JH
********************
Sent by Find A Grave contributor dlherrmann:
first wife: Marie Lamy
second wife: May Hull
********************
Cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society:
lot owner: George M. Stone
date of burial: 11/4/31
late residence: Topeka
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer
interment authorized by Robert Stone
From Ichabod Notables, Fall 2014, Two of Three Issues:
George Melville Stone (1858-1931)
George Melville Stone was an internationally known portrait and landscape painter. He attended Kansas State Normal School in Emporia, Kan., and studied art in Paris 1887-91. He co-founded, with Albert Turner Reid, the Reid-Stone School of Art, which affiliated with Washburn in 1903 and moved on campus into Boswell Hall in 1906. Stone taught drawing and painting at the school 1902-09 and 1916-18. The Mulvane Art Museum's permanent collection holds 20 of his works, 13 of which are portraits and include Joab Mulvane, Lilla Day Monroe and Washburn President Frank Knight Sanders. His work is in numerous collections, including the Mission Inn in Riverside, Calif.; Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dodge City, Kan.; and St. Francis Health, Topeka. "Transfiguration" is in Topeka's Grace Cathedral. "Spirit of Kansas" is on display in the Kansas governor's conference room of the Kansas Capitol, which also features historical murals on the first floor that were painted by David Overmyer, one of Stone's students.
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