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Clayton Lewis’ primary output as a sculptor took place in the 31 years he lived at Laird’s Landing.  While he designed a  large collection of sculpture jewelry, his output in larger forms was relatively small and spanned mostly the period during of 1974 to 1985.

During this period he worked in the spacious, light-filled sculpting and painting studio that  he designed and built overlooking his compound. The studio included 14 foot entrance doors, a completely equipped foundry for producing bronze sculpture, a kiln, and an outside area where be carved cypress and cedar into wooden sculptures. He also later added a living quarters, where he resided in for the final 10 years of his life (1985-95).

One of his most unique pieces of sculpture was the bed he built from found objects (1967-69). While it was built into the Coastal Miwok Indian cottage it was housed in, it also could stand alone as a piece of very usable sculpture.

Following his death on September 15, 1995,  “Clayton’s Bed” was  shown in a retrospective of 1960’s California art at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. The curator there discovered this unique sculptured bed  through the recommendation of Clayton’s good friend, Sim Van der Ryn, the prominent architect and California State Architect under Jerry Brown.

"a heroic bohemian masterpiece of wood and paint."
Patricia Leigh Brown: The New York Times
(Clayton’s Bed: Permanent Collection, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco)