Robert Pearson McChesney (1913 - 2008) was a California abstract artist.
He grew up in Marshall, Missouri. He studied at Washington University School of Fine Arts in 1933 to 1934, and the Otis Art Institute in 1936. He worked as a tour bus driver at Glacier National Park. He married Frances in 1937; they divorced.[1] He worked the Federal Art Project in San Francisco,[2] and on murals for the Golden Gate International Exposition. He was a merchant marine seaman, during World War II. [3] He taught at California State University, Hayward, from 1958 to 1962.[4]
He married Mary Fuller in December 1949; they lived in the North Bay San Francisco. [5] They moved to the Sonoma Mountain.[6] [7]