Stephen De Staebler, Sculptor of Bronze and Clay, Dies at 78 By WILLIAM GRIMES, New York Times, Art & Design, May 24, 2011

 

The cause was complications of cancer, Jill Ringler, his studio archivist, said. Mr. De Staebler found his medium when he met the pioneering ceramist Peter Voulkos at the University of California in the late 1950s. Impressed by the expressive possibilities of clay, he began making landscape-like floor works. To read more.