Typical Marks
About
- Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
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1958-1993
Ceramic sculptor
1960-1962Instructor of Design and Crafts, Mills College, Oakland, California
1962-1991University of California, Davis, California
Other
- Public Collections
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Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto, Japan
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Davis Art Center, Davis, California
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Ohio
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fresno, California
Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, DC
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii (formerly The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lewis Foundation, Richmond, Virginia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Florida
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis,Tennessee
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
Mildura Arts Center, Mildura, Australia
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (formerly American Craft Museum, New York)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Richard Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, California
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Pennsylvania State University, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Pollock-Krasner Study Center, East Hampton, New York
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
St.Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Iowa, Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkley, California
University of California, Davis, California
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Utah, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
- Bibliography
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Adrian, Dennis. “Robert Arneson’s Feats of Clay”. Art in America (September - October 1974).
Arneson, Robert. “Guardians: The Spirit of the Work”. Ceramics Monthly (April 1991).
Berkson, Bill. Robert Arneson: Double Portraits. San Francisco, CA: Brian Gross Fine Art, 1999.
Benezra, Neal. Robert Arneson: A Retrospective. Des Moines, IA: Des Moines Art Center, 1986.
Fineberg, Jonathan. A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson. Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles, CA, London, England: University of California Press, 2013.
_______________, Gary Garrels, and Janet Bishop. Robert Arneson: Self Reflections. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1997.
Johnson, Ken. “Robert Arneson at Frumkin/Adams Gallery”. Art in America (December 1990).
Kramer, Hilton. “Ceramic Sculpture and the Taste of California”. The New York Times, 20 December 1981.
Kuspit, Donald. “Arneson’s Outrage”. Art in America (May 1985).
____________. “Robert Arneson”. Artforum (January 1991).
Mayfield, Signe, Daniel Rosenfeld, and Linda Craighead. Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson. Palo Alto, CA: Palo Alto Art Center, 2001.
Mazow, Leo. Arneson and the Object. University Park, PA: Palmer Art Museum, 2004.
Morinue, Camille and Lucia Pesapane. Ceramix, from Rodin to Schutte. Belgium Snoeck Publilshers, 2015.
Nash, Steven A. Arneson and Politics: A Commemorative Exhibition. San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1993.
Natsoulas, John. Thirty Years of tB-9: A Tribute to Robert Arneson. Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Gallery, 1991.
Propokoff, Stephen and Suzanne Foley. Robert Arneson. Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974.
Selz, Peter. Funk. Berkeley, CA, University Art Museum, 1967.
Sommer, Robert. “Comment: Arneson’s Bust”. Arts and Architecture (August 1982).
Tarshis, Jerome. “Looking for Arneson to Get Serious”. California Magazine (May 1985).
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