NEW YORK ART DEALER ALLAN STONE DIES AT SEVENTY-FOUR

The New York Times‘ Roberta Smith reports that Allan Stone, a New York dealer who combined a broad expertise in Abstract Expressionism with a zeal for junk sculpture and realist painting and was perhaps as well known for amassing art as for selling it, died on Friday at his home in Purchase, New York. He was seventy-four. He died in his sleep, said his daughter Claudia. Stone was considered an expert on the work of the Abstract Expressionists Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Barnett Newman, and Franz Kline, as well as their contemporaries John Graham and Joseph Cornell. But he was legendary in the New York art world for his obsessive collecting. His gallery (like his home) teemed with primitive and folk art, no matter what exhibition was formally on view.