Chet La More (1908–1980) was an American artist.

Biography

La More was born in 1908 in Dane County,

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

. He studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin. For a time he was the editor of the Baltimore Art Association magazine. In the 1930s he was an artist in the

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Graphic Arts Project. He was also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Artists Union. In 1942, La More located in Buffalo where he taught at the University of Buffalo. He then served in the armed forces in Europe during

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. He returned to teaching at Buffalo before locating to Ann Arbor to teach at the

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in 1947. He taught at Michigan until his retirement in 1974. La More's work was included in 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the

National Serigraph Society The National Serigraph Society was founded in 1940 by a group of artists involved in the WPA Federal Art Project, including Anthony Velonis, Max Arthur Cohn, and Hyman Warsager. The creation of the society coincided with the rise of serigraphs bei ...

. La More died in 1980 in

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. La More's work is in the collections of the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, the

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, the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

, the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

External links

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Pressing Issues Artwork Highlight, Chet La More’s "Civilians"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:More, Chet La 1908 births 1980 deaths Artists from Wisconsin American male artists