Akron Art Museum
70 East Market Street
Akron, OH 44308-2084
Akron, OH 44308-2084
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Robert Carston Arneson MUSEUMS
1930 Benicia, California - 1992 Benica, California. Known for: Funk ceramic pop image ceramics, mixed media.
Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California... Read full biography
Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects. In the 1970s, he began using... Read full biography
Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects. In the 1970s, he began using humorous portraits as subjects, and his memorial portrait of San Francisco's assassinated Mayor George Moscone was very controversial because it included references to the assassin. As a young man, he was a... Read full biography
Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects. In the 1970s, he began using humorous portraits as subjects, and his memorial portrait of San Francisco's assassinated Mayor George Moscone was very controversial because it included references to the assassin. As a young man, he was a high school art teacher, who was assigned the teaching of pottery making and, becoming intrigued by its possibilities, he stayed just a step ahead of his students. Within a few years, he realized that clay was his medium, but he did not view it in... Read full biography
Born in Benicia, California, Robert Arneson almost singlehandedly transformed ceramics into a major contemporary medium. In the early 1960s, he became a member of the Funk Art movement, a California style of Pop-Art focusing on absurd images of everyday objects. In the 1970s, he began using humorous portraits as subjects, and his memorial portrait of San Francisco's assassinated Mayor George Moscone was very controversial because it included references to the assassin. As a young man, he was a high school art teacher, who was assigned the teaching of pottery making and, becoming intrigued by its possibilities, he stayed just a step ahead of his students. Within a few years, he realized that clay was his medium, but he did not view it in the conventional way of making pots. He wanted to explore the organic and functional qualities of the material... Read full biography
Robert Carston Arneson - Artist Info
About Robert Carston Arneson: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (19)
All MuseumsArkansas Museum of Fine Arts
501 East 9th Street
Po Box 2137
Little Rock, AR 72202Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Davis Arts Center
1919 F Street
PO Box 4340
Davis, CA 95617Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651Minnesota Museum of American Art
350 Robert Street North
St. Paul, MN 55101Museum of Northern California Art
900 Esplanade
Chico, CA 95926Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511-5595