Charles Shepard Chapman Explained

Charles Shepard Chapman
Birth Date:June 2, 1879
Birth Place:Morristown, New York
Death Place:Leonia, New Jersey
Nationality:American
Field:painting, drawing
Training:Pratt Institute, Art Students' League, Chase School

Charles Shepard Chapman (June 2, 1879 – December 15, 1962) was an American painter, perhaps best remembered for his landscape of the Grand Canyon at the American Museum of Natural History.[1]

Early life and education

Chapman was born in Morristown, New York.[2] He studied at the New York School of Art, under the mentor-ship of Walter Appleton Clark and William Merritt Chase.[3] He also studied at the Ogdensburg Free Academy and Pratt Institute, and taught at the Art Students League.

Career

Around 1910, Chapman moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he maintained his home and studio[4] and ran a school teaching illustration for a few years with Harvey Dunn.[3] He was a teacher at the Art Students League school in Manhattan.[3] Chapman also taught at the University of Wyoming.[5] In the 1930s and 1940s, Chapman also taught art intermittently in his hometown of Morristown.[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Collections - National Academy Museum. nationalacademy.org. 20 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151228232608/http://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/233/. 28 December 2015. dead.
  2. Book: Harmsen, Dorothy . American Western art: A Collection of One Hundred Twenty-Five Western Paintings and Sculpture with Biographies of the Artists . 1977 . Harmsen Pub. Co. . Internet Archive . 978-0-9601322-1-8 . Denver . 40.
  3. Web site: Charles Shepard Chapman (1879-1962): Original Paintings & Art For Sale. illustratedgallery.com. 20 October 2015.
  4. Staff. "Charles S. Chapman, 83, Prize-Winning Artist, Dies", The New York Times, December 17, 1962. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Leonia, N.Y., Dec. 16 - Charles Shepard Chapman, an artist, teacher and academician of the American Academy of Design, died yesterday at his home on 156 Sylvan Avenue where he had lived and worked for 50 years."
  5. Web site: The Artist Wife - Brenau Galleries. 26 July 2013.
  6. Web site: Paintings by Charles Chapman students on display in Morristown. 2015-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117064139/http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20130723/OGD/707239794. 2015-11-17. dead.