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:
Cylindrical form in a beautifully rich color with distinctive hand
worked elements. Made by the lost wax process at the legendary Siren
Works foundry described in Pouring Metal in the South Bay, this pot
reflects Daly's interest in art involving forms with functional, craft
associations. The form, not particularly the function, is adapted
to this purpose in this excellent object. Inscribed in the original
wax, Daly 1965.
Dimensions:
5 1/2” diam. (over 6” at widest point), 17” high
