Robert Stackhouse

Robert Stackhouse was born in 1942 in Bronxville, New York. He earned his B.A. from the University of South Florida and his M.A. from the University of Maryland. Stackhouse is known mainly for his sculptures, but is also a recognizable painter and printmaker. His interest in ships is evident in all forms of his art, often with the ship diminished to the essential framework of its structure. Stackhouse won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1991, as well as an Artist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, in 2008. His work is in collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.