The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York. He was a pupil of the Antwerp... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York. He was a pupil of the Antwerp Royal Academy and the Society of Independent Painters of America. Not American but post-Impressionist... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York. He was a pupil of the Antwerp Royal Academy and the Society of Independent Painters of America. Not American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cezanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York. He was a pupil of the Antwerp Royal Academy and the Society of Independent Painters of America. Not American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cezanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tight-fisted, hard-working farm family. Soon Chapin got so absorbed in spare, taciturn, unschooled Emmet, George and Ella Marvin that he... Read full biography
The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:. James Chapin was born in West Orange, New York. He was a pupil of the Antwerp Royal Academy and the Society of Independent Painters of America. Not American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cezanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tight-fisted, hard-working farm family. Soon Chapin got so absorbed in spare, taciturn, unschooled Emmet, George and Ella Marvin that he stopped painting cubist arrangements of rocks, scaffolding and apple trees, became instead a limner of the... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (35)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined) (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Museum of Modern Art Editors
220 pages
Paintings and Sculpture: Norton Gallery and School of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Woods, Willis F. (Intro);
100 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
Twenty Painters and How They Work
1950
Watson, Ernest W
158 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting
1946
Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro)
260 pages (color)
Portrait of America
1945
Crane, Aimee
204 pages (color)
Fine Art Color Prints by Celebrated American Artists (A Portfolio)
1945
Hoffman, Irwin (illustrator)
0 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists
1940
Hall, W. S.
150 pages (color)
Contemporary Art of the U S (Golden Gate Exposition1940) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
IBM Collection
112 pages
Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Art Institute of Chicago
110 pages
Modern Art in America
1939
Cheney, Martha Candler
190 pages
Sanity in Art
1937
Logan, Josephine Hancock
127 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
Olympic Competition and Exhibitio of Art, Catalogue of the Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)