1. Robert Carston Arneson was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades.
11 Facts About Robert Arneson
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Robert Carston Arneson was born on September 4,1930, in Benicia, California.
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Robert Arneson graduated from Benicia High School and spent much of his early life as a cartoonist for a local paper.
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The new movement was dubbed Funk Art, and Robert Arneson is considered the father of the ceramic Funk movement.
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One of Robert Arneson's most famous and controversial works is a bust of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco who was assassinated in 1978.
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Robert Arneson's teaching career began soon after receiving his MFA degree, with a stint at Santa Rosa Junior College, in Santa Rosa, California.
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Since its founding, the UC Davis campus ceramics studio has been housed in a corrugated metal building known as TB-9, and it was here that Robert Arneson held court for nearly three decades until his retirement in the summer of 1991.
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Robert Arneson died on November 2,1992, after a long battle with liver cancer.
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Robert Arneson was survived by his wife, Sandra Shannonhouse, and his five children.
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Robert Arneson's creations are at the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Florida.
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The Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, where Robert Arneson was a faculty member, owns 70 of the artist's works, including The Palace at 9am.