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Richard Norton Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of some of Francis Chapin’s recently discovered early works from the 1920s and 30s. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting 129 individual entries between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently
of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced
by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945).
In addition to his many exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chapin’s work was shown during his lifetime at such institutions as the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the National Academy of Design, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, among others. Francis Chapin’s paintings are represented in the collections as the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA among others.
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GALA RECEPTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MERCHANDISE MART INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUES FAIR 2009:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 5:30 TO 8:30 PM
THE MERCHANDISE MART, 12TH FLOOR, BOOTH #12-126. $50 ADMISSION BENEFITS MERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS
EXHIBITION CONTINUES:
AT THE MERCHANDISE MART INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUES FAIR, BOOTH #12-126 ($15 GENERAL ADMISSION)
OCTOBER 2 - 5
AT RICHARD NORTON GALLERY
OCTOBER 6 - 31
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE GALLERY AT: (312) 644-8855 OR INFO@RICHARDNORTONGALLERY.COM
VISIT THE EXHIBITION ONLINE AT WWW.RICHARDNORTONGALLERY.COM
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