Robert Sperry

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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