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Charles Henry Chapin

Charles Henry Chapin (1830 - 1889) was active/lived in New York, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts.  Charles Chapin is 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 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 Association.  After that he went to the southern United States.

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Facts about Charles Henry Chapin

   Publications  Book References:  10
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Charles Henry Chapin
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Hudson River School February 2002 Huff, Roger Yes
10 Book References for Charles Henry Chapin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Libby, Gary R. Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000 360 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors) Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 464 No
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)
298 Yes
1974 Kuh, Katherine (Foreward); Gaylord Freeman (Intro) The Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago 274 Yes
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