Designer/Maker:
Stephen Daly - Studied at San Jose State and created a body of work
in sculpture at the Siren Works while an undergraduate that led to
a scholarship to Cranbrook where he became Julius Schmidt's foundry
assistant and received an MFA in 1967. By the early 1970s, Daly had
established foundries while teaching at the University of Minnesota
and Humboldt State College, taught at the influential Penland School
of Crafts in North Carolina and emerged as a powerful American sculptor.
During this period his work was exhibited in California Design Nine
and Eleven and Creative Casting at Museum West, toured with Objects:USA,
and Daly subsequently received the Prix De Rome. The sculptor went
on to a long career in academia, has exhibited and won awards internationally
and has work in numerous museum collections.
Description:
An exuberant bronze bowl cast from lost wax at the Penland School
of Crafts during one of the Summer sessions Daly taught in North Carolina.
This work is an excellent object representing Daly's Cranbrook experience
combined with his continued interest in forms with functional, craft
associations. Marked Daly, Penland, 1968.
