Robert arneson - biography

American sculptor and professor (1930–1992)

Robert Carston Arneson (September 4, 1930 – November 2, 1992) was an American sculptor and professor of ceramics in the Art department at University of California, Davis for nearly three decades.^[2]

Early life and education

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.^[3][4] At Mills College he studied under Antonio Prieto.^[4]

Career

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 sta