Lee R. Chesney, Jr.

Printmaker Lee Chesney earned a BFA from the University of Colorado and an MFA from Iowa State University in 1948. He also studied at the Universidad de Michoacán in Morelia, Mexico, the Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, and the Mill Race Lithographic Studio in San Antonio. After completing his studies, Chesney taught at the University of Illinois, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, the University of Southern California and the University of Hawaii, where at the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus

A 1956 Fulbright Research Award allowed Chesney to visit Japan, where he studied Japanese printmaking. He has since exhibited regularly with the Japan Print Association and also served on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. Chesney has received numerous awards, including a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Chesney is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Gallery of Art, Stockholm; Tate Gallery; Bibliothèque nationale de June16lee6France; Victoria and Albert Museum; Smithsonian Art Museum, National Gallery of Art; Library of Congress; Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; Philadelphia Museum; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Oakland Museum; Seattle Museum of Art; Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County; Portland Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; the Butler Institute of American Art and numerous university collections. Chesney’s works have been shown in over one hundred national and international exhibitions, including 25 solo exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, and Honolulu.