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Mary Fuller McChesney (October 20, 1922 – May 4, 2022) was an American sculptor and art historian. She was a 1975 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
*1974 “Dos Leones,” San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA
*1975 “Temko Lions,” Frenso Avenue, Berkeley, CA
*1975 Children’s Sculpture Park, Salinas Community Center, Salinas, CA
*1977 Falcon Andrew Hill High School, San Jose, CA
*1978 “Yuba Totem,” Yuba Lion CA Arts Council Award for the Department of Motor Vehicles Building, Yuba City, CA
*1992 “Gualala Shakti,” Gualala, CA
*1982 “Tot-Lot,” Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, CA
*1983 “Olympic Lions,” Squaw Valley, CA
*1983 “Stratford Memorial Lion & Bear,” Petaluma Library, Petaluma, CA
*1984 “Anshen-Mays Garden Sculptures,” Sausalito, CA
*1985 “Earth, Air, Sea,” West Side Pump Station, San Francisco, CA
*1988 Random Ridge Winery Gate, Napa, CA
*1986 Robinson Totem, Santa Rosa, CA
*1987 Playground Sculptures, Los Angeles State Office Bldg., Los Angeles, CA
*1989 Rebecca Hirsch Totem, Mill Valley, CA
*1993 “Seacliff Park Benches,” Santa Cruz, CA
*1994 “Broadway Plaza Totem,” Walnut Creek, CA
*1996 “Portsmouth Square Lions,” San Francisco, CA
*1997 “Peace Totem,” Cape Cod, MA
*1999 Sogin Wall, Occidental, CA
*2001 Becky Temko Park, Berkeley, CA
*2001 Rainbow Ridge, Reno, CA
*2002 Annex Gallery Fountain, Santa Rosa, CA
*2003 Petaluma Animal Shelter Sculpture, Petaluma, CA
*2019 Three Outdoor Sculptures, Petaluma Library, Petaluma, CA
Under pen-names: *Rayter, Joe (mysteries) **''The Victim Was Important'' New York, Scribner, 1954, OCLC 9526317 **''Asking for Trouble'' New York : M.S. Mill and W. Morrow, 1955, OCLC 317837980 **''Stab In the Dark'' New York, M.S. Mill and W. Morrow, 1955, OCLC 2978566 *Franklin, Melissa **''Courier of Desire'' San Diego, Greenleaf Classics, 1969, OCLC 657708966 **''Murder In Her Thighs'' San Diego, Corinth Publications, 1969, OCLC 666424742 **''Nymphs, Horses, and Athletes'' New York, Ophelia Press, 1979, OCLC 157135 **''Putting on the Dog'' San Diego, Greenleaf Classics, 1971, OCLC 874768193
Oral history interview with Mary Fuller McChesney, 1994 Sept. 28
*http://calabigallery.com/mary-fuller-mcchesney/
City of Berkeley, CA, "Cat and Dog" sculpture description
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Life
McChesney was born to Robert Fuller and Karen Rasmussen on October 20, 1922, in Wichita, Kansas and grew up inStockton, California
Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County in the Central Valley (California), Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Carlos Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquir ...
after moving there at age two with her family. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied philosophy with Paul Marhenke. Leaving before graduating, she became a welder in the Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council.
shipyard, during World War II, and potter at California Faience
California Faience was a pottery studio in Berkeley, California in existence from 1915 to 1959. The pottery produced tiles, decorative vases, bowls, jars and trivets. The pottery was founded by and who also taught at the California School of Art ...
, starting a ceramics business of her own, along with her partner Avrum "Bill" Rubenstein: Two Fish Pottery. She held her first solo art show, of paintings and clay sculptures, Artists’ Guild Gallery (an artists’ co-op) in San Francisco. Through her association with The Artists' Guild Gallery, she became acquainted with a wide variety of her contemporary artists, including Hassel Smith
Hassel Smith (born Hassell Wendell Smith Jr.; April 24, 1915 – January 2, 2007) was an American painter.
Biography
Hassel Smith was born in 1915 in Sturgis, Michigan. During childhood and adolescence his family alternated between homes in ...
, Ed Corbett, Emmy Lou Packard
Emmy Lou Packard also known as Betty Lou Packard (1914–1998) was a Californian post-war artist known for painting, printmaking and murals.
Early life
Emmy Lou Packard was born on April 15, 1914, near El Centro, California, to parents Emma an ...
, Robert P. McChesney
Robert Pearson McChesney (1913–2008) was a California post-war artist, abstract expressionist painter, assemblage artist, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. He is considered one of the "progenitors of Bay Area abstract expressionism".
Life
He ...
, George Goya, John Hultbert, Clyfford Still, and Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centere ...
.
She married Robert McChesney in December 1949; they lived in the North Bay San Francisco.
They moved to Sonoma Mountain
Sonoma Mountain is a prominent landform within the Sonoma Mountains of southern Sonoma County, California. At an elevation of , Sonoma Mountain offers expansive views of the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Sonoma Valley to the east. In fact, ...
in Sonoma County near Petaluma, California in 1952, after living in Mexico for a year, and lived and worked there through Robert McChesney's death in 2008, after which Mary remained there, continuing to work, until the late 2010s. During their time in Guadalajara, Mexico, she began writing seriously, publishing a story in "New Story," and embarking upon writing mystery novels, publishing her first in 1953. She also began writing articles for Art Digest
''Arts Magazine'' was a prominent monthly magazine devoted to fine art. It was established in 1926 and last published in 1992.
History Early years
Launched in 1926 and originally titled ''The Art Digest,'' it was printed semi-monthly from Octob ...
, then for Artforum.
She experimented with different sculpture formats, including wood and stone, before developing the cement mixed with vermiculite that she used for the majority of her work. She received her first public art commission for a work in Salinas, followed by her work for San Francisco General Hospital and many subsequent commissions.
Fuller died at an assisted living facility in Petaluma, California on May 4, 2022, at the age of 99.
The research materials for her books are held at the Archives of American Art.
Artistic work
*1974 “Dos Leones,” San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA
*1975 “Temko Lions,” Frenso Avenue, Berkeley, CA
*1975 Children’s Sculpture Park, Salinas Community Center, Salinas, CA
*1977 Falcon Andrew Hill High School, San Jose, CA
*1978 “Yuba Totem,” Yuba Lion CA Arts Council Award for the Department of Motor Vehicles Building, Yuba City, CA
*1992 “Gualala Shakti,” Gualala, CA
*1982 “Tot-Lot,” Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, CA
*1983 “Olympic Lions,” Squaw Valley, CA
*1983 “Stratford Memorial Lion & Bear,” Petaluma Library, Petaluma, CA
*1984 “Anshen-Mays Garden Sculptures,” Sausalito, CA
*1985 “Earth, Air, Sea,” West Side Pump Station, San Francisco, CA
*1988 Random Ridge Winery Gate, Napa, CA
*1986 Robinson Totem, Santa Rosa, CA
*1987 Playground Sculptures, Los Angeles State Office Bldg., Los Angeles, CA
*1989 Rebecca Hirsch Totem, Mill Valley, CA
*1993 “Seacliff Park Benches,” Santa Cruz, CA
*1994 “Broadway Plaza Totem,” Walnut Creek, CA
*1996 “Portsmouth Square Lions,” San Francisco, CA
*1997 “Peace Totem,” Cape Cod, MA
*1999 Sogin Wall, Occidental, CA
*2001 Becky Temko Park, Berkeley, CA
*2001 Rainbow Ridge, Reno, CA
*2002 Annex Gallery Fountain, Santa Rosa, CA
*2003 Petaluma Animal Shelter Sculpture, Petaluma, CA
*2019 Three Outdoor Sculptures, Petaluma Library, Petaluma, CA
Writing
*''A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945–1950'' Oakland Museum, 1973, OCLC 754950Under pen-names: *Rayter, Joe (mysteries) **''The Victim Was Important'' New York, Scribner, 1954, OCLC 9526317 **''Asking for Trouble'' New York : M.S. Mill and W. Morrow, 1955, OCLC 317837980 **''Stab In the Dark'' New York, M.S. Mill and W. Morrow, 1955, OCLC 2978566 *Franklin, Melissa **''Courier of Desire'' San Diego, Greenleaf Classics, 1969, OCLC 657708966 **''Murder In Her Thighs'' San Diego, Corinth Publications, 1969, OCLC 666424742 **''Nymphs, Horses, and Athletes'' New York, Ophelia Press, 1979, OCLC 157135 **''Putting on the Dog'' San Diego, Greenleaf Classics, 1971, OCLC 874768193
References
External links
Oral history interview with Mary Fuller McChesney, 1994 Sept. 28
*http://calabigallery.com/mary-fuller-mcchesney/
City of Berkeley, CA, "Cat and Dog" sculpture description
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Mary 1922 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women artists American art historians American women historians American women sculptors Artists from Stockton, California Artists from Wichita, Kansas Historians from California National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Sculptors from California University of California, Berkeley alumni Women art historians