Career
She was awarded a bachelor"s degree in fine arts from Moore College of Art and Design in 1971. Foreign 30 years, she taught ceramics at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia), before retiring as a professor emeritus in December, 2012. She died June 24, 2013 of lung cancer at her home in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
Stewart is best known for her hand-built ceramic portrayals of animals.
Typically, the modeling is realistic, but the painting is stylized. Monkey with Roses, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of her larger works and demonstrates this dichotomy, as well as her use of separate ceramic flowers to create an environment.
The Hermitage Museum (Street St. Petersburg, Russia), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, District of Columbia), and the Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, Delaware) are among the public collections holding work by Lizbeth Stewart.