Robert Stackhouse

United States of America born 1942

Robert Stackhouse was born in Bronxville, New York, on 31 July 1942. He studied art at the University of Southern Florida, Tampa, from 1960 to 1965, then at the University of Maryland from 1965 to 1967. He taught at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC from 1967 to 1987 when he was appointed Professor Emeritus in recognition of his academic contribution. In 1975 the artist moved to New York where he held his first solo show at Max Hutchinson’s Sculpture Now gallery in 1976, where he exhibited from the late 1970s until the mid-1980s. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, held exhibitions of the artist’s work in 1973 and 1988; Common Places: Paintings and Sculpture by Robert Stackhouse was held at the Delaware Museum of Art in 1991 and Robert Stackhouse: Major Works 1969–1999 at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia, in 1999. Since the late 1970s the artist has also undertaken a number of important public commissions and sculptural installations. In 1996 Stackhouse was a visiting artist at the Kansas City Art Institute and the following year he relocated from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he now lives and works.

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Robert Stackhouse Sailings; drawing of the sculpture 'Sailings', constructed at the Hudson River Museum, NY, 1978 1979 Purchased 1983 Learn more

Robert Stackhouse On the beach again 1984 Purchased 1983 Learn more

Robert Stackhouse Mountain climber - On the beach again; preliminary drawing for the sculpture 'On the beach again', constructed at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1983 1983 Purchased 1983 Learn more

Robert Stackhouse On the beach again; drawing of the sculpture 'On the beach again', constructed at the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 1983 1983 Purchased 1985 Learn more

Robert Stackhouse Sailings; drawing of the sculpture 'Sailings', constructed at the Hudson River Museum, NY, 1978 1979 Purchased 1983 Learn more