Robert Arneson Art

mixed media on paper image size: 17 X 25 framed size: 28 X 34 Provenance- Originally purchased from the Candy Store. It is from the Cherie and Ron Petersen collection and exhibited in 1989 in an exhibition "Collectors Choice, Drawings Paintings and Prints from the collection of Cherie and Ron Petersen". Bio- Born in Benicia, California in 1930, Robert Arneson was encouraged by his father to draw. He became a proficient draftsman early in life and drew cartoons for a local newspaper as a teenager. After Arneson studied art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland he taught in a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics. He went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in 1958. Arneson became head of the ceramics department at the University of California at Davis in 1962 and became a full professor of art in 1973. Arneson was greatly influenced by the expressionist work of fellow Californian Peter Voulkos, who had studied Pablo Picasso’s works...