Robert Sperry
1927-1998
“I learned more in three months than I’d learned in eight years of school, I think. Just when I was ready to learn.”
—Speaking about his 1954 residency at Archie Bray
Oral history interview with Robert Sperry, 1983
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
One of the great ceramic art innovators
Archie Bray Artist in Residence, 1954
Art Professor, University of Washington, 1955-1982
Plate #984
1989
ceramic
Gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group and Washington Art Consortium, 2010
Accession Number - 4234.33
Slab Plate #86 (23)
1989
ceramic, glaze, metal
Gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group and Washington Art Consortium, 2010
Accession Number - 4234.32
Untitled #328
1979
ceramic, glaze, metal
Gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group and Washington Art Consortium, 2010
Accession Number - 4234.31