Richard Waters (September 19, 1935 – July 4, 2013) was an American painter and sculptor most notable for inventing the

waterphone A waterphone (also ocean harp) is a type of inharmonic acoustic tuned idiophone consisting of a stainless steel resonator ''bowl'' or ''pan'' with a cylindrical ''neck'' and bronze rods of different lengths and diameters around the rim of the bowl ...

. Waters grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He graduated from the

University of Southern Mississippi The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, ma ...

in 1961. In 1965, Waters received his MFA from the California College of the Arts.Richard Waters Obituary
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* 1935 births 2013 deaths American artists Inventors of musical instruments 20th-century American inventors California College of the Arts alumni University of Southern Mississippi alumni {{US-artist-stub