Biography

Robert McChesney was born in 1913 in Marshall, Missouri and attended the Washington University School of Fine Arts in Saint Louis, Missouri from 1933-34. McChesney traveled west to work at Glacier National Park before studying at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1936-37. After a two year stint in the South Pacific as a merchant Marine, McChesney moved to the Bay Area, where he shared a home with artists Edward Corbett, Hassel Smith, and Weldon Kees. After teaching for two years at the California School of Fine Arts, he moved to Petaluma in 1952. McChesney’s has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Nevada Art Museum, and the Fresno Art Museum, as well as other galleries and museums around the country. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Nevada Museum among others. This would be the first work by McChesney to enter SJMA’s permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2004)

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