Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian... Read full biography
Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian Art Guild, at age ten. At 21, she completed a correspondence course with the Famous Artists School... Read full biography
Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian Art Guild, at age ten. At 21, she completed a correspondence course with the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut and began teaching art at a local community center starting in her mid 20s. Primarily self-taught in the beginning, she did study with Sidney Simon, Marshall Glasier and... Read full biography
Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian Art Guild, at age ten. At 21, she completed a correspondence course with the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut and began teaching art at a local community center starting in her mid 20s. Primarily self-taught in the beginning, she did study with Sidney Simon, Marshall Glasier and Michael Pellettieri at the Art Students League of New York; Tommy Hicks at the Shidni Foundry in Tesuque, New Mexico; Richard McDaniel at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, New York, and David Hardy of Oakland, California. She works in multiple... Read full biography
Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian Art Guild, at age ten. At 21, she completed a correspondence course with the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut and began teaching art at a local community center starting in her mid 20s. Primarily self-taught in the beginning, she did study with Sidney Simon, Marshall Glasier and Michael Pellettieri at the Art Students League of New York; Tommy Hicks at the Shidni Foundry in Tesuque, New Mexico; Richard McDaniel at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, New York, and David Hardy of Oakland, California. She works in multiple media, including her signature wood polychromatic bas relief, oil painting, fired clay and bronze sculpture, hand-pulled block... Read full biography
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