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Robert Pearson McChesney

Robert Pearson McChesney (1913 - 2008) was active/lived in California, Missouri.  Robert McChesney is known for Abstract expressionist and mural painting.

Post-War California artist, Robert Pearson McChesney became an Abstract Expressionist painter, assemblage artist, printmaker, sculptor and teacher.  He was born in Marshall, Missouri, and with the exception of a year in Mexico, 1951, and World War II military service aboard a ship, he spent his career in California where he moved in 1936.  He lived and had his studio north of San Francisco in Petaluma, atop Sonoma Mountain.  Considered one of the "progenitors of Bay Area abstract expressionism", he had influence far beyond his home town.  Exhibition venues were in New York at the Whitney Museum, Chicago at the Art Institute and San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art.

He studied at Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri from 1933-1934, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1936 to 1937 with Fred Conway.

Robert McChesney worked in the mural division of the Works Progress Administration from 1938-1940,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8491 characters.]  Artist bio

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