Mary Fuller (sculptor)
Appearance
Mary Fuller McChesney (born October 20, 1922 Wichita, Kansas[1]) is an American sculptor, and art historian. She was a 1975 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.[2]
Life
She grew up in Stockton, California and studied at University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Paul Marhenke. She was a welder in the Richmond, California shipyard, during World War II, and potter at California Faience. She married Robert P. McChesney, in December 1949;[3] they lived in the North Bay San Francisco. [4] They moved to the Sonoma Mountain.[5]
The research materials for her book are held at the Archives of American Art.[6]
Works
- A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950 Oakland Museum, 1973, OCLC 754950
References
- ^ "Mary McChesney Fuller (1922 - )". askart. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ "Mary Fuller - Statement/Biography". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ "It's All About the Apple, Or is it? - Native Visions". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ M.V. Wood (May 31, 2002). "It's a colorful life / Robert McChesney, Mary Fuller celebrate art and their marriage with a joint show". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Artists Robert and Mary Fuller McChesney - Fifty Years on Sonoma Mountain - The Arts in the North Bay, CA". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011 - Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
External links
Categories:
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 1922 births
- Artists from Wichita, Kansas
- Living people
- American women sculptors
- Sculptors from California
- People from Stockton, California
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- American art historians
- Women art historians
- American women historians
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century women artists
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellows