Catherine can always be reached at her email address: catherine@catherinestock.com
Her address in France is
Le Tramizal
46500 Rignac
telephone/fax (33) 565336940 ( when inside France, dial 0565336940)
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Education
Primary school in Paris, Pretoria, and the Metairie Park Country Day School in New Orleans
High school: the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town
Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of London
Master in Communications Science from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York
Positions
1975 Lecturer at the Hewat Teacher’s Training College, Cape Town
1978-1981 Art Director for G.P.Putnam and Coward, McCann and Geoghegan Children’s Book Departments, New York
1981-1982 Art Director for Tafelberg, Cape Town
1983-1985 Designer at Macmillan Children’s Books, New York
1985-1986 Art Director for Clarion Books, New York
1990 Art Director for Atheneum Children's Books, New York
Exhibitions
1983
• Drawn for Children, Irma Stern Museum, Cape Town
1984
• The Original Art Show, Master Eagle Gallery, New York
1985
• The Original Art Show, Master Eagle Gallery, New York
1986
• Far, Far Away: South African Illustrated Children's Books, The South African National Gallery
• The Original Art Show, Master Eagle Gallery, New York
1989
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
1990
• The Illustrator’s Art: A World of Children’s Books, Dairy Barn, Ohio
• The Potter's Gallery, Kalk Bay, South Africa (launch of Armien's Fishing Trip)
1991
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
1992
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
1993
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
1995
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
• Recent Acquisitions to the Rutgers Collection of Original Illustrations for Children's Literature, Zimmerli Museum
1998
• The Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York
• "Land of Wonders: Highlights of the Rutgers Collection of Original Illustrations for Children's Literature."
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, and The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach
2000
• One Man Show of Life Drawings, Bliss, Brooklyn
• Alvignac les Eaux, France
• The Fine Art of Children's Books Volume III, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, Florida
• One Man Show of Book Illustration: RePast, New York
• The Centre for the Book, Cape Town
2001
• The Fine Art of Children's Books Volume IV, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, Florida
• "Family, Friends, and Neighbors: Picturing Relationships in Children's Books", Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
2004
• One-man show and launch of Spree in Paree at the Mairie in Rocamadour, France
• "Pictures at Play: Images pour les enfants...et les plus grands", Fondation Mona Bismarck, Paris
• "Our Neighors to the South: an exhibition of illustrations from from children's books about Mexico", Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
2005
• 2e Biennale de l'Aquarelle, Brioude, France
2007
• "A Sense of Place: The Art of Catherine Stock", Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
Collections
• The de Grummond Collection, University of Mississippi
• The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
• The Kerlan Collection, The University of Minnesota
• The Thomas J. Dodd Reasearch Center, University of Connecticut
• Cape Provincial Library, Cape Town, South Africa
• The South African Library, Cape Town
• The University of Cape Town
• Numerous private collections
Scholarships
1974 Maclvor Scholarship
1990 Blue Mountain Center Fall ResidentClick here to email Catherine or click here to go back to the home page