Lincoln Stone, sculptor

While researching Chamblee Library’s history, I learned about sculptor Lincoln Stone. Elena Barrio, Branch Manager of the library, told me about the carousel horses they have at the library and about Stone, the artist who created them. Stone created the horses back in 1990 and he has an interesting and impressive resume of work.

The full article on the history of Chamblee Library will appear later this week in the Dunwoody Crier newspaper and can be found at the appenmedia.com website once it is published.

Lincoln Hickcox Stone was born January 31, 1944, in Montrose PA. He grew up in Miami, FL, graduated from Florida Atlantic University and attended Florida State University for his Master of Visual Arts degree. In the 1960s he served in the U.S. Army. (Obituary, Lincoln Stone, 2023)

Stone worked for Turner Advertising painting billboards as his first job in Atlanta. It seems billboards were still hand painted in the 1970s.

He had a studio in Marietta beginning in 1976 and this is where he designed and carved the Chamblee Library carousel horses. The Cobb Extra section of the May 22, 1980 Atlanta Constitution describes a studio called Winged Victory, where Stone and other artists shared space for their creative endeavors.

Stone created a ten-foot-tall stainless steel globe for Southern Polytechnic State University (now part of Kennesaw State). He created six giant paintings of exotic birds for Disney World and has created exhibits and murals for the Dallas Children’s Museum, the Smithsonian, Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, and the Fulton County Schools Teaching Museum, to name a few.

He also worked as a painter on the sky and skyline of the restored Cyclorama at the Atlanta History Center.

He created paintings and sculptures that are part of private collections.

Lincoln Stone died in 2023, but his legacy remains in the art he created not only in Atlanta but across the country.