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Chester Arnold Art

American, b. 1952
Arnold was born in then United States in 1952, but was raised Germany for a major portion of his childhood. He currently resides in Sonoma, CA. Through his paintings Arnold explores the natural world and the human events that inhabit it, constructing narratives that celebrate and question our presence in the world. His work has been widely exhibited and won a number of awards. His work is in many public collections, including: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Pasadena Museum of California Art; Nevada Museum of Art; The di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature; the Tacoma Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art. In March 2018, Arnold’s work was featured in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the Academy of Arts and Letters Gallery in New York, NY, and was honored with an award through the Art Purchase Program. In 2022, the artist was the subject of an extensive survey exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum, California titled Reports to the Contrary: A Persistent Vision - Paintings 1971 - 2021 by Chester Arnold. In 2017, Kelly’s Cove Press published a monograph of Arnold’s work titled Evidence: Painting by Chester Arnold 1989 –2017. In December 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired Beyond This (2018), a major painting from Arnold’s 2018 exhibition Borderline.
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Artist: Chester Arnold
Dissent
Dissent

Dissent

By Chester Arnold

Located in White Plains, NY

'Dissent' 2005 by American artist, Chester Arnold. Oil on canvas, 46 x 54 in. This painting presents a richly painted, aerial view of protesters circa 2005, in the midst of the Iraq ...

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Early 2000s American Realist Chester Arnold Art

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