Chet La More

La More studied at the Colt School of Art in Madison, Wisconsin, where he received his B.A. and M.A. in Art History and Criticism in 1932. During the Depression he was the editor of the Baltimore Art Association magazine, Art Voice. La More was employed by various federal art projects in Baltimore and later New York City, including the Works Progress Administration's Graphic Arts Project.

He was also actively involved in the National Coordinating Committee of the Artists' Union and served on the editorial board of their magazine, Art Front. He continued to work during his World War II tour of duty Europe, producing small surrealistic watercolors. He taught in Buffalo at the Albright Art School and at the University of Buffalo, before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1947. La More wrote occasional reviews of the exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for the Ann Arbor News and was an avid collector of African art. Best described as an Abstract Surrealist, La More explored a variety of mediums during his productive career. During his Michigan period he worked with welded bronze sculpture, large painted steel sculpture, acrylic painting with abstract linear themes. His later works were notably dominated by his use of collage and whimsical serigraphs.

"Gallery reputation interested him very little; he did not seem to work toward it for himself, and it did not impress him in others. In a period when such reputations are often made by finding a vein which could, by infinite variation, be made into a stylistic trademark, Chet apparently approached his studio or workshop with the attitudes and feelings of that day and that hour. His style was always the result of a long and rich experience confronting an immediate moment of vision, an immediate challenge of material or media." - Robert Iglehart