Master Artist Vi Stephen de Staebler a Thirty Year Survey 1973 2003

Master Artist VI: Stephen De Staebler, a Thirty-Year Survey is an exhibition at the Hearst Art Gallery of Saint Mary’s College of California. It presents the work of clay and bronze sculptor Stephen De Staebler and is part of the Master Artist Tribute series, which showcases artists whose significance as teachers of art is described as nearly as profound as their bodies of work.

The exhibition includes a fully illustrated color catalogue. The catalogue has an introduction by George W. Neubert, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the catalogue text is comprised of excerpts from essays about the artist written by Doug Adams, Dore Ashton, Ramsay Bell Breslin, Donald Kuspit, Franklin Parrasch, and Peter Selz.

The programme highlights De Staebler’s work in clay and bronze, his background studies in sculpture, and his teaching career. It also references public commissions including interior altar structures and crucifix for the Newman Center, the Farnsworth Memorial Sculpture, a wall water sculpture, the Wall Canyon for Bay Area Rapid Transit, Man With Flame for the Moscone Center, and Three Figures commissioned for the Oakland City Center.