Charles Shepard Chapman
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.
Also recorded as Charles S. Chapman · Charles Chapman · Charles Shephard Chapman · C. S. Chapman
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- Name
- Charles Shepard Chapman
- Born
- 2 June 1879
- Birthplace
- Morristown, New York
- Died
- 15 December 1962
- Place of death
- Leonia, New Jersey
- Field
- painting, drawing
- Training
- Pratt Institute, Art Students' League, Chase School
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter, draftsperson and illustrator.
- Fields
- painting.
- Teachers
- William Merritt Chase.
- Languages
- English.
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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.
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Training under William Merritt Chase is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Charles Shepard Chapman is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Print Collection.
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• Name — Charles Shepard Chapman • Born — 2 June 1879 • Birthplace — Morristown, New York • Died — 15 December 1962 • Place of death — Leonia, New Jersey • Field — painting, drawing • Training — Pratt Institute, Art Students' League, Chase School
Early life and education
Early life and education
Chapman was born in Morristown, New York. He studied at the New York School of Art, under the mentor-ship of Walter Appleton Clark and William Merritt Chase. He also studied at the Ogdensburg Free Academy and Pratt Institute, and taught at the Art Students League.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Grand Canyon Around 1910, Chapman moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he maintained his home and studio and ran a school teaching illustration for a few years with Harvey Dunn. He was a teacher at the Art Students League school in Manhattan. Chapman also taught at the University of Wyoming. In the 1930s and 1940s, Chapman also taught art intermittently in his hometown of Morristown.
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1879
Charles Shepard Chapman born at Morristown.
1962
Charles Shepard Chapman died at Leonia.
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- 1.Collections - National Academy Museum. nationalacademy.org.
- 2.Harmsen, Dorothy. American Western art: A Collection of One Hundred Twenty-Five Western Paintings and Sculpture with Biographies of the Artists. Harmsen Pub. Co. 40. 1977. 978-0-9601322-1-8.
- 3.Charles Shepard Chapman (1879-1962): Original Paintings & Art For Sale. illustratedgallery.com.
- 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.The Artist Wife - Brenau Galleries. 26 July 2013.
- 6.Paintings by Charles Chapman students on display in Morristown.
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He also worked under the name Chapman, Charles Shepard. The authorities additionally record the headings Charles S. Chapman, Charles Chapman, Charles Shephard Chapman and C. His recorded language was English.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Print Collection
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