Joyce Hill Stoner has taught for the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation since 1976 and served as its director for 15 years (1982-1997). She graduated Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary in 1968. She received her Master’s degree in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University (1970), her diploma in conservation at the NYU Conservation Center (1973), and a Ph.D. in Art History (1995, UD). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum and at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Both an art historian and a practicing paintings conservator, Stoner has treated paintings for many museums and private collectors and was senior conservator of the team for the five-year project of examination and treatment of Whistler’s Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Stoner has authored more than 120 book chapters and articles and co-edited Conservation of Easel Paintings, an 890-page international reference book pub. 2012, 2021. She has curated two exhibitions about the paintings of the Wyeth family; her portrait was painted by Andrew Wyeth in 2001.
Following the advice of John Gettens and George Stout, Stoner founded the international oral history project for the FAIC in 1975. She has conducted more than 60 of the 500+ oral histories with pioneer conservators, conservation scientists, and interested art historians now available to researchers.
She has received the Gettens Award, the Keck Award for teaching. the CAA/AIC Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the Paintings Specialty Group Award and the AIC University Products Award in 2003 labeled "Lifetime Achievement Award."