Bob Stocksdale

Bob Stocksdale (1913 January 6, 2003) was an American woodturner, known for his bowls formed from rare and exotic woods. He was raised on his family farm

He was drafted into the Army in 1942. Like two of his three brothers, he claimed conscientious objector (CO) status during World War II because he believed war never solved anything. He spent World War II in several CO camps

After the war, Stocksdale moved to Berkeley, California in 1946, one year after Gump's in San Francisco began showing his work. Stocksdale was one of the earliest members of the Arts and Crafts Cooperative, Inc. (ACCI) on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California. His first solo exhibition followed in 1958 at the Long Beach Museum of Art. a daughter, Joy, a noted fabric designer, of Sebastopol, California; a son, Kim, of Los Angeles; and a sister-in-law, Marge Stocksdale of Huntington, Indiana.

Stocksdale's bowls are prized by collectors. They have been shown in Europe and Japan, and they appear in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Oakland Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.