[2] He worked the Federal Art Project in San Francisco,[3] and on murals for the Golden Gate International Exposition.
At the exposition, McChesney worked with a team of around 10 people, on a mural series designed and directed by artist, Herman Volz.
It consisted of two large mural on two sides of a large federal building called The Conquest of the West, and on one side of the building it wasBy Landand the other wasBy Sea.
Other artists that worked on this multi-year mural project included artist helping including: Jose Ramis, John Saccaro, John Thomas Hayes (Tom Hayes), Carlton Williams, Peter Lowe, Percy Freer, Alden Clark and Ernest Lenshaw.
[7] Settling down in the Sonoma Mountain area in Petaluma, California.