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1830 Massachusetts - 1889 North River, Adirondacks. Known for: Landscape painting, illustrator-Civil War.
Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher... Read full biography
Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher and painter of portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor. Chapin painted landscapes that reflect... Read full biography
Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher and painter of portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor. Chapin painted landscapes that reflect the drama and emotional expression characteristic of 19th-century landscape painting, especially the excitement over natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and scenes in the Adirondack Mountains.... Read full biography
Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher and painter of portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor. Chapin painted landscapes that reflect the drama and emotional expression characteristic of 19th-century landscape painting, especially the excitement over natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and scenes in the Adirondack Mountains. He was also noted for his portrait of Polish actress Helena Modjeska , posed when she played the role of Mary Queen of Scots. In New Orleans he did Creole subjects. He was a founder of the Lotus Club* in New York City, and then headed to California,... Read full biography
Charles Chapin had studios in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Appearing to change locations continually, he had an itinerant career as an illustrator, art teacher and painter of portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolor. Chapin painted landscapes that reflect the drama and emotional expression characteristic of 19th-century landscape painting, especially the excitement over natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and scenes in the Adirondack Mountains. He was also noted for his portrait of Polish actress Helena Modjeska , posed when she played the role of Mary Queen of Scots. In New Orleans he did Creole subjects. He was a founder of the Lotus Club* in New York City, and then headed to California, where he was in San Francisco from 1876 to 1877 and exhibited with the San Francisco Art... Read full biography
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Keywords (34)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Itinerant Artist
Art Media
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •California Before 1940
- •Catskill Mountains, New York
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •New Orleans Before 1940
- •Northern California Before 1900
- •Southern California Before 1900
- •Yellowstone National Park
Art Association
- •Lotos Club-
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Civil War Artist and/or Photographer
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association