David Shaner
1934-2002
“The bowl? Well, the bowl is the act of containing something. It can be as simple as cupped hands. I never said this to anybody, but I always thought of my mother when I made a bowl.”
—Oral history interview with David Shaner, 2001
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Longest acting Director, Archie Bray Foundation, 1964-1970
With Ken Ferguson (who taught him to throw clay) built the first soft-brick kiln at Archie Bray Foundation
Low Bowl Square
1993
stoneware
Gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group, and Washington Art Consortium, 2010
Accession Number - 4234.29