Norah Stone Dead: Prominent Art Collector Dies of Cancer at 81
Norah Stone, a prominent philanthropist and art collector in San Francisco who, along with her husband, Norman, has ranked on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list each year since 1995, died on September 6 at age 81. The cause of death was cancer. Charles Desmarais first reported the news in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Stones, who began collecting art in the early 1990s, were known for their eye-catching—and at times outlandish—complementary outfits. They were inspired to become art collectors through their interactions with John Caldwell, a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art throughout the 1980s until his death in 1993. Both Stones would serve on SFMOMA’...