Bowl+(1986)

Date: 1986
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1991/1991.169.7_1a.jpg&max=460 width="370" height="248" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=32493"]] || Title: **Bowl**

Artist: **Bob Stocksdale** Born: Warren, Indiana 1913 Died: Oakland, California 2003 Philippine ebony

Dimensions: 3 5/8 x 6 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (9.3 x 15.6 x 13.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Jane and Arthur K. Mason

Accession: 1991.169.7 || "I do not turn bowls as thin as I could, for I try first to give the piece strength and durability and then thinness without fragility." Bob Stocksdale, //American Craft//, 1988
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Bob Stocksdale believed a vessel must be both functional and beautiful. He did not allow the walls of his pieces to become too thin and never included cracks or blemishes. He explored a wide variety of colors and textures of wood, but his forms were always consistent, with only slight differences in height and shape.
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