Collection Information
Size: 6 Linear feet
Summary: The papers of artist Robert Pearson McChesney measure 6 linear feet and date from 1913 to 2006. McChesney was an abstract expressionist painter and muralist based in Petaluma, California. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, exhibition files, printed materials, scrapbooks, and photographic materials.
Biographical/Historical Note
Robert Pearson McChesney (1913-2008) was a California Abstract Expressionist painter and muralist.
Provenance
Robert McChesney loaned three scrapbooks to the Archives of American Art for microfilming in 1975. Mary Fuller McChesney, Robert McChesney's widow, donated the rest of the Robert McChesney papers in 2015.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art has an oral history interview with Robert McChesney conducted in 1964 by Lewis Ferbraché. The Archives of Art also holds materials lent for microfilming (reel 878) including three scrapbooks. Two of the scrapbooks were later donated and integrated with the collection. The remaining scrapbook is only available on microfilm and is not described in the collection container inventory.
Language Note
Collection is in English.
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