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{{short description|American sculptor and professor (1930–1992)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Robert Arneson
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| birth_place = [[Benicia, California]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|11|2|1930|9|4}}<ref name=":0" />
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| training = [[California College of the Arts]], [[Mills College]]▼
▲| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|11|2|1930|9|4}}
| movement = [[Funk art|Funk movement]], [[Nut art]]▼
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* {{marriage|Jeanette Frank Jensen|1955|1972|end=divorce}}
* {{marriage|Sandra Lynne Shannonhouse|1973|1992|end=died}}
▲| training = [[California College of the Arts]], [[Mills College]]
▲| movement = [[Funk art|Funk movement]], [[Nut art]]
| works =▼
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[[File:Doyen by Robert Arneson, 1972, glazed ceramic.JPG|thumb|right|200px|''Doyen'' by '''Robert Arneson''', 1972, glazed ceramic, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]]▼
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▲[[File:Doyen by Robert Arneson, 1972, glazed ceramic.JPG|thumb
'''Robert Carston Arneson''' (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American [[sculpture|sculptor]] and professor of [[Ceramic art|ceramics]] in the Art department at [[
== Early life and education ==
▲'''Robert Carston Arneson''' (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American [[sculpture|sculptor]] and professor of [[Ceramic art|ceramics]] in the Art department at [[UC Davis]] for nearly three decades.<ref>''California Death Records'' (The California Department of Health Services) [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi]</ref>
Robert Carston Arneson was born on September 4, 1930, in [[Benicia, California]]. He graduated from [[Benicia High School]] and spent much of his early life as a cartoonist for a local paper. Arneson studied at [[California College of the Arts]] in [[Oakland, California]], for his BFA degree and went on to receive an MFA from [[Mills College]] in [[Oakland, California]], in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|date=8 November 1992|title=Robert Arneson: 1930–1992|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/626086788/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=The Sacramento Bee|page=31|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Fineberg|first=Jonathan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAIlDQAAQBAJ|title=A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson|date=2013-03-01|publisher=Univ of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-27383-2|language=en}}</ref> At Mills College he studied under [[Antonio Prieto (artist)|Antonio Prieto]].<ref name=":1" />
== Career ==
[[File:35 Year Portrait.jpg|thumb|''35 Year Portrait'', a double-sided self-portrait sculpture on display at the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]]]
During the start of the 1960s, Arneson and several other [[California]] artists began to abandon the traditional manufacture of functional ceramic objects and instead began to make nonfunctional sculptures that made confrontational statements. The new movement was dubbed
▲During the start of the 1960s, Arneson and several other California artists began to abandon the traditional manufacture of functional ceramic objects and instead began to make nonfunctional sculptures that made confrontational statements. The new movement was dubbed ''[[Funk art|Funk Art]]'', and Arneson is considered the father of the ceramic [[Funk art|Funk movement]].<ref name=Levin>{{cite book|last=Levin|first=Elaine|title=The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the present|year=1988|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|location=Ny, Ny|isbn=0-8109-1172-8|pages=227–230}}</ref>
His body of work contains many self-portraits which have has been described as an "autobiography in clay".<ref>https://www.ucdavis.edu/eggheads/robert-arneson/ Sintetos, Mike, Robert Arneson: Serious Ideas Behind that Humor, UC Davis website</ref> ''Doyen'' from 1972, in the collection of the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]] is an example of the artist's humorously caricatured self-portraits.
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One of Arneson's most famous and controversial works is a bust of [[George Moscone]], the mayor of San Francisco who was assassinated in 1978. Inscribed on the pedestal of the bust are words representing events in Moscone's life, including his assassination: the words "Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Moscone-s-first-bust-caused-quite-a-stir-in-S-F-3212529.php|title=Moscone's first bust caused quite a stir in S.F.|first=John|last=King|date=May 22, 2008|website=SFGate}}</ref> "Twinkies," and "[[Harvey Milk]] Too!" are visible on the front of the pedestal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/press-release/sfmoma-acquires-robert-arnesons-famous-bust-of-ge/|title=SFMOMA ACQUIRES ROBERT ARNESON'S FAMOUS BUST OF GEORGE MO…|website=www.sfmoma.org}}</ref>
[[File:Robert C. Arneson Park.jpg|thumb|
Arneson's teaching career began soon after receiving his MFA degree
Arneson's next appointment
Arneson died on November 2, 1992, after a long battle with liver cancer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Artner|first=Alan|date=5 November 1992|title=Innovative Sculptor Robert Arneson|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/389758019/|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Newspapers.com|publisher=[[Chicago Tribune]]|page=251|language=en}}</ref> He was survived by his wife, Sandra Shannonhouse, and his five children.<ref name=":0" /> His home town of Benicia, California established a park in his memory, along the [[Carquinez Strait]].
=== Collections ===▼
Arneson's fame is far-reaching, and his works can be found in public and private collections around the world, including the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], the [[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts]] (Richmond, Virginia), the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] (Washington, DC), where his 1979 glazed ceramic "Elvis" bust is housed, since 1985, [[Di rosa|di Rosa]] (Napa, California), the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyoto, Japan), the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Racine Art Museum]] (Racine, Wisconsin), the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] (New York City), the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]], the [[University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art|UI Stanley Museum of Art]] and the US Embassy in [[Yerevan, Armenia]]. His creations are also at the [[Lowe Art Museum]] in [[Coral Gables, Florida]].▼
The
▲===Death===
▲[[File:Robert C. Arneson Park.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Robert C. Arneson Park in Benicia]]
== Personal life ==
Arneson's first marriage was to Jeanette Frank Jensen, from 1955 until 1972 and ended in divorce.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Craighead|first1=Linda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tIZIAQAAIAAJ|title=Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson|last2=Mayfield|first2=Signe|last3=Rosenfeld|first3=Daniel|date=2001|publisher=Palo Alto Art Center|isbn=978-0-9636922-6-9|pages=10|language=en}}</ref> Together Arneson and Jensen had four sons.<ref name=":1" />
His second wife was artist Sandra Lynne Shannonhouse,<ref name=":0" /> they were married from 1973 until his death in 1992.<ref name=":1" /> They had a daughter Tenaya Arneson.
▲== Collections ==
▲Arneson's fame is far-reaching, and his works can be found in public and private collections around the world, including the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], the [[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts]] (Richmond, Virginia), the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] (Washington, DC), [[Di rosa|di Rosa]] (Napa, California), the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (New York City), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyoto, Japan), the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Racine Art Museum]] (Racine, Wisconsin), the [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] (New York City), the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]], and the US Embassy in [[Yerevan, Armenia]]. His creations are also at the [[Lowe Art Museum]] in [[Coral Gables, Florida]].
== Publications ==
▲The [http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/ Nelson Gallery] at [[UC Davis]], where Arneson was a faculty member, owns 70 of the artist's works, including ''The Palace at 10am''. The {{convert|70|sqft|m2|adj=on}} earthenware sculpture, a depiction of his former Davis residence, is considered among his most famous sculptures. Several of his etchings and lithographs also are on display in the library.<ref>[http://verisimilitudo.com/arneson/ ''A tribute to Robert Carston Arneson'']</ref>
* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUlSHQAACAAJ|title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears|publisher=University of California, Davis|others=Authored by Jim Adamson, Robert Arneson, [[Clayton Bailey]], Fred Bauer, [[Maija Peeples-Bright]], [[Victor Cicansky]], [[David Gilhooly]], Jim Melchert, Nicholas Stephens, Chris Unterseher, Peter Vandenberge, David Zack, [[Lowell Darling]]|year=1971|type=artist book}}
==Footnotes==
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[[Category:20th-century American male artists]]
[[Category:American male sculptors]]
[[Category:20th-century American printmakers]]
[[Category:Nut artists]]
▲[[Category:20th-century American ceramists]]
[[Category:Funk art movement artists]]
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