Robert
Pearson McChesney is an abstract expressionist painter, printmaker,
sculptor and teacher. A WPA artist during the 1940s, he assisted
Anton Refregier with the murals in San Francisco's Rincon Annex Post
Office. After WWII he joined the faculty of the California School of
Fine Arts, taught at the California Labor School, Art Department and
served on the San Francisco Art Institute Board of Directors.