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Robert Arneson

(American, 1930–1992)

Robert Arneson

Coca-Cola Toilet

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Robert Arneson

Mortar and Pestle Toilet

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Robert Arneson

Bob as Chef, 1972

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Robert Arneson

Early Ab Ex Vessel

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Robert Arneson

Cashew Lullaby

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Biography

Timeline

1930: Born in Benicia, CA
1949 - 1951: College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1954: BA, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1958: MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1985: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1991: Academy-Institute Award in Art, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1992: Fellowship American Craft Council
: Died in Benicia, CA

Exhibitions

2013: “Robert Arneson: Troublesome Subjects: Three Decades of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2013 (solo)
: "The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art," Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY
2012: “Robert Arneson: Playing Dirty,” Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: “Robert Arneson: Installation of Works from the Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: “Robert Arneson: Self Portraits in Bronze” Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: “Ink,” Sacramento City College’s Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA
: “Pop! Goes the Humor,” Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: “Group Shoe,” Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY, 2012
: Group Show: Size Matters: Large-Scale and Small-Scale Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2011: Important Artworks, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010: Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Robert Arneson: Founding Funk: Sculptures and Drawings 1956-66, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008: Robert Arneson from the 60's, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: The Grand Ceramics Theater, Museo Internazionale della Arti Applicate Oggi, Turin, Italy
: CCA @ di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
: Robert Arneson: The Black Series, Selected Works 1988-1990, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2007: 2007 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
: Jackson, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
: Dialogues: The Enigmatic Object, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Robert Arneson: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings 1958-1992, George Adams Gallery at the ADAA Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY (solo)
: 2006 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: Artful Jesters, The Painting Center, New York, NY and Brattelboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
: A Ceramic Legacy: Selections from the Stephanie Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - 2006: Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture from the Paula and Ross Turk Collection, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA
: Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
: Robert Arneson: Political Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Arneson and the Object, curated by Leo Mazow, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA; travelling to Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC and George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Bush- Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond, Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ
2003 - 2004: The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; traveling to the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Sweet Tooth, curated by Sarah Tanguy, COPIA, Napa, CA
2003: Sculpture in the City, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
: Multiple Artists, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Global Village: The 1960s, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
: Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE; David and Alfred Smart Museum, Chicago, IL (solo)
: A Happening Place, The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA
: Aftershock: Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, Dickinson Roundell, New York, NY
: Poetics of Clay, curated by Helen Drutt, Houston Center for Contemporary Clay, Houston, TX
: Form from Fire: Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, Ken Price, Michael Lucero, Peter Voulkos, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: In the Eye of the Beholder, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
: Me, Myself & I, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002: Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990 – A Survey of American Objects and Vessels, Organized by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, traveled throughout Japan to: Achi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Achi; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Ibaraki Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Ibaraki; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Niigata; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Muesum of Art, Fukuoka
2001 - 2002: Real(ist) Men, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2001: Holocaust: A Broad Perspective, Gallery West, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY
: From Pop to Op: American Art in the 60s, Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, PA
: 2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: About Face: The Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr., Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: The Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
: Self Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2000 - 2001: This Head is Mine, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (solo)
: Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic, Organized by Exhibits USA, Traveled to University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
: American Embassy Windhoek, Namibia
2000: 2000 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Robert Arneson: Bronze Self-Portraits and Drawings, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; travelling to; George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999 - 2000: George Washington - American Symbol, The Museums at Stonybrook, New York, NY; the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA; Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA
1999: Robert Arneson: Double Portraits, Brian Gross Fine Art. San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Robert Arneson: Painting into Sculpture, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA (solo)
: Born of Clay 3, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
: Bob Arneson and Friends, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
: Artists for Mumia 911, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Annual Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1998: American Embassy Russia
1997: A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
: A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Robert Arneson: Self-Reflections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Out of ‘Toon’: Another Look at Art & the Comics, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: It Figures, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
: Alteration, K & E Gallery, New York, NY
1996: Robert Arneson: Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1995 - 1998: It’s Only Rock and Roll, Exhibition Management, Inc., Cleveland, OH; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1995: California in the 1960’s: Funk Revisited, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Robert Arneson: The Late Bronzes, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1994 - 1995: Robert Arneson: Changing the Face of American Ceramics, Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1994: The Figure in Sculpture, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
: Around the House, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Black Male: Representations of Masculinity, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: When Attitudes Become Form: Selections from a Contemporary New Jersey Collection, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1993: Robert Arneson: The Last Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Arneson and Politics: A Commemorative Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: A Memorial Exhibition, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York , NY (solo)
: Robert Arneson: Two-dimensional Works, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS (solo)
1992 - 1994: Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; The Strong Museum, Rochester, NY; The Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc., Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD; National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Cultural Museum and National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
1992 - 1993: Guardians of the Secret II, Museum of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa City, IA (solo)
: Large-Scale Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: Masks, Drawing Gallery, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992: Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: Me and Jackson: Robert Arneson Interprets Jackson Pollock, Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton, NY (solo)
1991: Academy-Institute Invitational, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: Collectors’ Gallery XXV, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
: Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America, 1870-1990, The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
: Robert Arneson: The Jackson Pollock Series, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (solo)
: Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (solo)
: Robert Arneson: New and Selected Work, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (solo)
: Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, New York, NY
: Robert Arneson/ Matrix 110: From the Jackson Pollock Series, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (solo)
: Ironies: Figure and Still-Life in Sculpture, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
: Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA (solo)
1990: Black, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Guardians of the Secret II, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1989: Personae, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
: Here's Looking at Us: A Selection of Figurative Works from the di Rosa Foundation, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA
: Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY; Chicago, IL
: Taboo, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1988: A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
: Columnar, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
: 1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada (solo)
: Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
1987 - 1988: Committed to Print., Museum of Modern Art, New York , NY
: Robert Arneson - Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA (solo)
1987: All the News That's Fit for Prints, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
: Robert Arneson - Portrait Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
1986 - 1987: Robert Arneson: A Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (solo)
1986: Nuclear Visions, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (solo)

Public Collections

: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi, Japan
: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
: Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College, Ohio
: American Craft Museum, New York, NY
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Australian National Gallery, Parkes ACT, Australia
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
: Mildura Arts Center, Mildura VIC, Australia
: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fracisco, CA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
: Smart Gallery, University of Chicago
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
: Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Richard Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection, University of California, Davis, CA
: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
: Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Pollock-Krasner Study Center, East Hampton, New York, NY
: Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: National Museum of Art, WA
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Robert Arneson

(American, 1930–1992)

Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson

Robert Arneson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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