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E.M. Beuson.
American Magazine of Art.
March 1963.

EXHIBITION REVIEWS
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same soil. His "The Accordion Player," although technically indebted to the School of Paris, bears the stamp of a personal vision and the ability to communicate it in a strong painting language.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
   I ENTERED the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in the dutiful but suffering frame of mind of an art critic who was in for a bad half hour. I left convinced that this organization had staged its best show in years. Of course, there was the usual small army of innocuous flower still-lifes, and dull genre pieces, but the average quality-level of the work had been raised to an unrecognizable degree. And surprisingly enough several of the prizes were awarded to the right people. Katharine Langhorn Adams received the coveted Tucker prize for her well-painted canvas "Once Upon a Time," Louise Pershing was given the Cooper prize for her cleverly composed "Coal Tipple" picture. I don't feel quite as warmly about Cornelia Chapin's "Baby Elephant" in wood (life size if you please) as the judges did who awarded her the Huntington prize for sculpture, but I was delighted to see that Lorene David carried off the Sterling water color prize with her competent picture "High-Tide." There's no telling what these women will do next.


NATIONAL ARTS.
FEB. 1936

CORNELIA VAN A. CHAPIN has returned from Paris, bringing several of her wood carvings of heads and animals. Her carved wood elephant, which was given one of the places of honor in the Paris Salon, won flattering notices in Paris papers: Le Temps, Le Journal des Debats, Le Jour-Excelsior, Agence Hadas. Also le Beaux Arts cited the elephant in the special number sold on the Palace steps the day of the opening. It is now being shown in New York at the National Academy by the Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.


NATIONAL ARTS
MARCH 1936.

HONORS AND AWARDS
   CORNELIA VAN A. CHAPIN is the recipient of the second ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON Prize of $100 for sculpture for her wood carving "Baby Elephant," in the forty-fifth annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors which opened on January 25. Honorable mention for sculpture was given to FRANCES MALLORY MORGAN for her work, "Portrait of a Delta Negro." A reproduction of MISS CHAPIN's carved elephant appears in the New York Times, January 25, 1936.
   At the annual meeting of the Detroit Philosophical Society held December 16, CHASE S. OSBORN was elected an Honorary member of the Society for the ensuing year.
   New York artists won the lion's share of prizes in painting and sculpture awarded in connection with the opening of the 131st annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Among the prize winners was JEAN MACLANE, awarded the Beck medal for the "best portrait in oil" for her "Rev. G. A. Studdert-Kenedy." In the center of what is traditionally called the "Honor Wall" in the main gallery was placed a figure piece by WILLIAM PAXTON, called "Nellie Looks Down on the Phryne." DANIEL GARBER'S portrait of the artist, William Lathrop, was included in the class of portraits which attracted attention. FREDERICK J. WAUGH, ERNEST LAWSON and JONAS LIE were among the other exhibitors in the show.