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San Jose State UniversitySJSU ScholarWorksFaculty Publications Art and Art History & Design Departments1-1-2012Norman J. ‘Bud’ Goldstone 1926-2012Jo Farb HernandezSan Jose State University, Jo.Hernandez@sjsu.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/artdesign_pubPart of the Art and Design CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Art and Art History & Design Departments at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been acceptedfor inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contactscholarworks@sjsu.edu.Recommended CitationJo Farb Hernandez. "Norman J. ‘Bud’ Goldstone 1926-2012" Raw Vision (2012): 19.OBITUA~tES JAN ROSENAK 1930 - 2012 )an Rosenak, wife of Chuck Rosenak, from Coral Gables, Florida, passed away on June 11, 2012. )an and Chuck were the renowned authors of The Encyclopedia of 2oth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Contemporary American Folk Art, Navajo Folk Art: The People Speak, and The Saint Makers. In the summer of 1986, my wife Sue and I went to Santa Fe on vacation. In a small restaurant on the Santa Fe trail, we met a local couple and began to chat. When Sue mentioned that we collected folk art, they invited us to their home to see their collection and introduced themselves as Jan and Chuck Rosenak. Jan and Chuck generously shared their wealth and knowledge. )an was an expert in railroad law and was still doing special projects for the government. She always let Chuck have the limelight, but she was an equal partner in all that they did and gave to the field of the arts. The Encyclopedia of 2oth-Century American Folk Art and Artists was a seminal event in the field of American outsider art, opening up the market by listing where artists lived. A large part of the couple's folk art collect ion was acqu ired by t he Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, ensuring the ir memory will be a lasting one in this field. )an was a brilliant, radiant star. She will be missed. George Viener NORMAN J. 'BUD' GOLDSTONE 1926 - 2012 It 'was the most complicated test I ever did,' recalled Norman ). 'Bud' Goldstone, of the lateral 'stress test' he devised to prove the safety and stability of the Towers, built by Sabato Rodia (ca. 1879-1965) in the Watts section of los Angeles. Then a young aerospace engineer, he understood that because the open construction design of the Towers made them more akin to aircraft than to buildings, they should be evaluated on different structural principles. He took leave from his position at North American Aviation and collaborated with more than twenty engineers and technicians to develop the test, which took place on October 10, 1959. After its success. the City rescinded their demolit ion order and, since that time , the Watts Towers have been honoured with county, state, and national historic landmark status, and are lauded as the most important public artwork in the City of los Angeles. Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Goldstone received his B.A. in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. He worked on the Apollo and space shuttle programmes and held a patent for an in-flight refuelling system. After his retirement, he became an independent engineering consultant, continuing to advise on the Towers as well as on other large-scale art environments, and in 1997 he and his wife, Arloa Paquin Goldstone, wrote the book, The Los Angeles Watts Towers (Getty Publications). In recent years, with reduced mobility, he acted as the conscience of the City of los Angeles, publicly criticising what he saw as flawed conservation techniques and inadequate resources allocated for support of the Towers. )o Farb Hernandez, Direct or SPACES (Savin g and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments) Maurice Noirot was born in Besan~on, France, to a very modest family. Timid in character, Noirot was very imaginative, engag ing, sensitive, and a faithful friend. In 1983, aged 37, Noirot had an accident causing him to lose much of the use of his legs. A disability pension allowed him to settle permanently in Hugier, a small village in Franche-Comte. There, he devoted himself fully to his art. His house soon became a warehouse teeming with his creations. Poet and sage, he dedicated his work to the transmutation of violence and rage into bliss. He expressed a dream of living in an innocent fairy world, surrounded by supernatural creatures. At the end of his life, he tended to make works from wood carved with a knife, or cardboard cut with a cutter, which were painted in oil in a soft, coloured style. Noirot presented himself as a self-taught artist who learned more from the contact of children than Fine Arts school. He was also a song writer., and his creations often reveal his kindness and his modesty. A moving pre­recorded poem by Noirot called 'Testament' was played at his farewell ceremony. Do miniq ue Sablons ~ MAURICE NOIROT 1946 ­ 2012 RV/77• 19 

Norman J. ‘Bud’ Goldstone 1926-2012

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Faculty Publications Art and Art History & Design Departments
1-1-2012
Norman J. ‘Bud’ Goldstone 1926-2012
Jo Farb Hernandez
San Jose State University, Jo.Hernandez@sjsu.edu
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/artdesign_pub
Part of the Art and Design Commons
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Art and Art History & Design Departments at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted
for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
scholarworks@sjsu.edu.
Recommended Citation
Jo Farb Hernandez. "Norman J. ‘Bud’ Goldstone 1926-2012" Raw Vision (2012): 19.
OBITUA~tES 
JAN ROSENAK 1930 - 2012 
)an Rosenak, wife of Chuck Rosenak, from Coral Gables, Florida, 
passed away on June 11, 2012. )an and Chuck were the renowned 
authors of The Encyclopedia of 2oth-Century American Folk Art and 
Artists, Contemporary American Folk Art, Navajo Folk Art: The People 
Speak, and The Saint Makers. 
In the summer of 1986, my wife Sue and I went to Santa 
Fe on vacation. In a small restaurant on the Santa Fe trail, we met 
a local couple and began to chat. When Sue mentioned that we 
collected folk art, they invited us to their home to see their collection 
and introduced themselves as Jan and Chuck Rosenak. 
Jan and Chuck generously shared their wealth and 
knowledge. )an was an expert in railroad law and was still doing 
special projects for the government. She always let Chuck have the 
limelight, but she was an equal partner in all that they did and gave 
to the field of the arts. The Encyclopedia of 2oth-Century American 
Folk Art and Artists was a seminal event in the field of American 
outsider art, opening up the market by listing where artists lived. A 
large part of the couple's folk art collect ion was acqu ired by t he 
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, ensuring the ir 
memory will be a lasting one in this field. )an was a brilliant, radiant 
star. She will be missed. 
George Viener 
NORMAN J. 'BUD' GOLDSTONE 1926 - 2012 
It 'was the most complicated test I ever did,' recalled Norman ). 'Bud' Goldstone, 
of the lateral 'stress test' he devised to prove the safety and stability of the Towers, 
built by Sabato Rodia (ca. 1879-1965) in the Watts section of los Angeles. Then a 
young aerospace engineer, he understood that because the open construction 
design of the Towers made them more akin to aircraft than to buildings, they 
should be evaluated on different structural principles. He took leave from his 
position at North American Aviation and collaborated with more than twenty 
engineers and technicians to develop the test, which took place on October 10, 
1959. After its success. the City rescinded their demolit ion order and, since that 
time , the Watts Towers have been honoured with county, state, and national 
historic landmark status, and are lauded as the most important public artwork in 
the City of los Angeles. 
Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Goldstone received his B.A. in aeronautical 
engineering from Purdue University. He worked on the Apollo and space shuttle 
programmes and held a patent for an in-flight refuelling system. After his 
retirement, he became an independent engineering consultant, continuing to advise 
on the Towers as well as on other large-scale art environments, and in 1997 he 
and his wife, Arloa Paquin Goldstone, wrote the book, The Los Angeles Watts 
Towers (Getty Publications). In recent years, with reduced mobility, he acted as the 
conscience of the City of los Angeles, publicly criticising what he saw as flawed 
conservation techniques and inadequate resources allocated for support of the 
Towers. )o Farb Hernandez, Direct or SPACES (Savin g and Preserving Arts and 
Cultural Environments) 
Maurice Noirot was born in Besan~on, France, to a very modest family. Timid in 
character, Noirot was very imaginative, engag ing, sensitive, and a faithful friend. 
In 1983, aged 37, Noirot had an accident causing him to lose much of the use of 
his legs. A disability pension allowed him to settle permanently in Hugier, a small 
village in Franche-Comte. There, he devoted himself fully to his art. His house 
soon became a warehouse teeming with his creations. Poet and sage, he 
dedicated his work to the transmutation of violence and rage into bliss. He 
expressed a dream of living in an innocent fairy world, surrounded by 
supernatural creatures. 
At the end of his life, he tended to make works from wood carved with 
a knife, or cardboard cut with a cutter, which were painted in oil in a soft, 
coloured style. Noirot presented himself as a self-taught artist who learned more 
from the contact of children than Fine Arts school. He was also a song writer., 
and his creations often reveal his kindness and his modesty. A moving pre­
recorded poem by Noirot called 'Testament' was played at his farewell ceremony. 
Do miniq ue Sablons 
~ 
MAURICE NOIROT 1946 ­ 2012 
RV/77• 19 


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