Louis Stone: The Path to Abstraction, 1928-1945 is the catalog of an eponymous exhibition at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in 2006. The exhibition includes thirty oil paintings dating from 1928 to 1945, offering a comprehensive overview of the artist’s evolution from a traditional landscape and still-life painter to a bold, avant-garde modernist. Attracted to vibrant colors in tonal and spatial harmony, his abstract images evoke figures and suggest objects which become traceable motifs across a distinctive body of work. In the fully illustrated exhibition catalogue, Joseph Jacobs writes “Stone’s work absorbs, transforms, and reflects the social, historical, and aesthetic concerns of his period. Today, we examine his work not just because it has been uncovered and brought to light, but because postmodern aesthetics is willing to look at those artists ignored by the modernist critique.”