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Maker: Bob Stocksdale, American, 1913–2003

Plate

1952 or 1953

English harewood

7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (2.223 x 34.608 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, by exchange, and a Gift from Stephen S. Lash, B.A. 1962, in honor of Ruth and David Waterbury, B.A. 1958
2002.23.1
Culture: 
American
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Containers - Wood
Geography: 
Made in Berkeley, California
Status: 
By appointment
Provenance: 

Bob Stocksdale, Berkeley, Calif., ca. 1953–2002

Bibliography: 

American Craftsmen Educational Council, Designer Craftsmen U.S.A., exh. cat. (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1953), 58, no. 176, ill.

Wood Turning in North America Since 1930 (Philadelphia, PA and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 29, no. 14, ill.

“Acquisitions 2002,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2003): 149.

Enchanted Garden: Enamels by an American Master (Plymouth, N.H.: Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University, 2007), 29, 31, fig. 5.

John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 276–77, no. 191.

Jeannine Falino, Jennifer Scanlan, and Glenn Adamson, Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design, exh. cat. (New York: Abrams, 2011), 242, no. 187, ill.

Signe Mayfield, In the Realm of Nature: Bob Stocksdale and Key Sekimachi, exh. cat. (San Diego: Mingei International Museum, 2015), 19, fig. 10.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.