Robert Arneson | Also Known As: Robert Arneson

Born: 1930, Benecia, CA
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    About
    Apprenticeships & Residencies
    Primary Work Experience
    1958
    -
    1993

    Ceramic sculptor

    1960
    -
    1962

    Instructor of Design and Crafts, Mills College, Oakland, California

    1962
    -
    1991

    University of California, Davis, California

    Other

    Public Collections

    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

    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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    Citation: Robert Arneson, "The Marks Project."
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