Name: Robert McChesney Watercolor Titled "Investigators"
Brand: Robert McChesney
Rating: 5 (37 reviews)

Robert McChesney Watercolor Titled "Investigators"

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Impressive watercolor by California Abstract Impressionist, Robert McChesney (1913-2008). The painting is in excellent condition and measures 21 x 15 inches. The frame is 31 x 24. A label is seen on the verso with the title: "Investigators," and "From the Okinawa Series #47." Signed lower right. McChesney was a wonderful painter and this work is from his best period in my opinion. 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, and in this capacity did ship murals for the "USS Monterey" and for the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition where he collaborated with twenty-five other artists. In the 1940s he was assistant to Anton Refrigier in creating murals for the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco. He taught at the California Labor School, Art Department, 1948-1949; California School of Fine Arts, 1949-1951; and served on the San Francisco Art Institute Board of Directors, 1965-1966. McChesney lived in Petaluma, CA until his death on May 10, 2008.

Creator:
Robert McChesney (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paint
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
Circa 1945
Condition:
Seller Location:
Phoenix, AZ
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1875333878272

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