Robert Arneson was born in 1930 in Benicia, California. He worked for a local newspaper as a cartoonist and eventually went on to go to California College of Arts and Mills College in Oakland. Arneson made a new approach to functionality, creating ironic and humorous versions of household objects such as phallic seaports, telephones, surrealist busts and non-functional pots and pans. Arneson won awards for his work and had many exhibits. Some awards he won were the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Craft Council. Some shows Arneson was a part of was the Institute of Contemporary Art In Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
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