Chet La More
Chet La More (1908–1980) was an American artist.
Also recorded as Chet Harmon La More · Chet LaMore
Chet La More

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- Name
- Chet Harmon La More
- Born
- 1908
- Birthplace
- Dane County, Wisconsin
- Died
- 1980
- Place of death
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Field
- painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
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• Name — Chet Harmon La More • Born — 1908 • Birthplace — Dane County, Wisconsin • Died — 1980 • Place of death — Ann Arbor, Michigan • Field — painter, printmaker, sculptor • Illustration — Construction, c. 1935–43 • Illustration — Unemployed, 1938 Chet La More (1908–1980) was an American artist.
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Chet La More lived from 1908 to 1980 and was an art critic and painter.
Biography
Biography
La More was born in 1908 in Dane County, Wisconsin. He studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin. For a time he was the editor of the Baltimore Art Association magazine. In the 1930s he was an artist in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project Graphic Arts Project. He was also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Artists Union. In 1942, La More was located in Buffalo where he taught at the University of Buffalo. He then served in the armed forces in Europe during World War II. He returned to teaching at Buffalo before locating to Ann Arbor to teach at the University of Michigan in 1947. He taught at Michigan until his retirement in 1974. La More's work was included in the 1944 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition of the National Serigraph Society. La More died in 1980 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. La More's work is in the collections of the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Chet La More was born in 1908 and died in 1980.
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- 1.Chet La More. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 2.Chet La More. Gallery Of Wisconsin Art.
- 3.Chet La More. Michigan Art Gallery.
- 4.Chet La More. Burchfield Penney Art Center.
- 5.National Serigraph Society Exhibition Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art.
- 6.Chet Harmon La More. Albright-Knox.
- 7.Chet Harmon La More. The Art Institute of Chicago.
- 8.Refugees. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 9.Chet La More. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 10.Chet Harmon La More. National Gallery of Art.
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