- James Chapin, Biography
James Chapin painted people and landscapes in the early and
middle twentieth century. His art is significant for showing
human warmth, heroism, and complex character in ordinary people.
The following biography is from the back of a lithograph sold by the
Associated American Artists Galleries. (1940's ?)
James Chapin is one of America's leading painters. He holds the Temple
Gold medal for the best painting by an American given by the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts and the $1,000 Prize for Portraiture award by the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Twenty years ago, Chapin created a series of paintings of a family in
lower New Jersey named Marvin. These character portrayals are hung in
the leading museums in the country.
He has executed numerous portraits of prominent public figures. His
works have been acquired by many private collectors and for the
permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts where he now
teaches portraiture, the Encyclopedia Britannica, Duncan Phillips Memorial
Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Newark Museum, Amherst College Dartmouth,
and others.
Chapin was born in West Orange, New Jersey in 1887 and studied at Cooper
Union, the Art Students League and abroad at the Royal Academy of Antwerp,
Belgium where he received the First Award and Gold Medal.
Biography from "The Seven Ages of a Physician"
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