Mary Fuller (sculptor)

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
  1. "Mary McChesney Fuller (1922 – )". askart. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  2. "Mary Fuller – Statement/Biography". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  3. "It's All About the Apple, Or is it? – Native Visions". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  4. 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.
  5. "Artists Robert and Mary Fuller McChesney – Fifty Years on Sonoma Mountain – The Arts in the North Bay, CA". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  6. Archives of American Art. "Summary of the Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949–2011 – Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
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