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Robert Stackhouse
Early Life and Artistic Foundations Robert Stackhouse, born in Bronxville, New York, in 1942, embarked on a journey that would establish him as a significant figure in American sculpture and painting. His formative years took an unexpected turn when his family relocated to Polk County, Florida, in 1954. This move proved pivotal, immersing the young Stackhouse in a landscape of lakes, fishing camps, and the raw beauty of nature—an envir
onment that would deeply imprint itself upon his artistic sensibility. Graduating from Auburndale High School in 1960, he carried with him the echoes of those formative experiences as he pursued higher education. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida in 1965, a member of the institution's inaugural class of art students, and further refined his skills at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he…