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PARIS HERALD. DEC 8. '36

Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin, American sculptor and newly elected member of the Salon d'Automne, is returning to New York Saturday on the Champlain. She will exhibit her sculpture in stone, particularly those pieces that were shown at the Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne shows this year. Miss Chapin will return to her Paris studio in the early spring.

NATIONAL ARTS. DEC '36

recorded.
OBITUARY

ERNEST GREENE, November 21, 1936, Aged 72. Distinguished architect—oldest member of the Architectural League of New York, American Institute of Architects, Society of Mayflower Descendants. Architect or more than twenty-five churches throughout the country.
MYRA B. MARTIN—December 2, 1936. For over a quarter of a century, MISS MYRA B. MARTIN was resident in our Club. Her gracious presence, her refinement of taste in lit-

NEW YORK, N.Y.
HERALD-TRIBUNE
JAN 3- 1937

A Sculptor's Drawings
Mateo Hernandez, the Spanish-born French animalier, is already known here as a sculptor, where his handsome "Black Panther," in diorite, may be seen at the Metropolitan Museum. At the Fifteen Gallery, with the first comprehensive show of his drawings of animals and birds, he is making a genuine bid for additional recognition as a draftsman. Miss Cornelia Chapin, a member of the gallery and a pupil of Hernandez in Paris, has arranged the exhibition with the full co-operation of Senor Hernandez, who has sent a fine selection of his work. There are crayon and pen-and-ink drawings, brush drawings, lithographs, encaustics, fresco studies and etchings— many of which have been developed completely. His illustrations for "Aesop's Fables," in lithographs, for instance, are prominent examples. A chimpanzee, a lioness and cub, and an eagle are excellent in these prints, and in the drawings for the finished illustrations. Hernandez varies his technique from broadly naturalistic studies in several instances to studies sensitively outlining his subjects with effects similar to primitive man's artless tracings on the walls of prehistoric cave dwellings. Several linoleum-cut prints, including one of giraffes running, and another of wild boars in white outlined on black, are particularly handsome. The show in general is a striking illustration in drawings of a talent both sensitive and diversely applied.  

NEW YORK, N.Y.
EVENING POST
JAN 2 - 1937

SEASON'S GREETINGS
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A lithograph by the distinguished Spanish animal sculptor an painter, Mateo Hernandez, in his exhibition at the Fifteen Gallery.

The Critic Takes A Look Around The Galleries

Mateo Hernandez, distinguished Spanish "animalier" whose sculptures were seen two years ago at the Brummer Gallery, now has an exhibit of paintings, drawings and prints at the Fifteen Gallery, arranged by his pupil, Cornelia Chapin.
A simplified outline grasp of form in these studies is the mark of the direct cutter, the sculptor who is stimulated by struggle against resistant materials.
At the same time a broad blocking of forms does not mean an arbitrary stylization or distortion of animal character. Hernandez shows the keenest and most intimate understanding of the world of dumb creatures, with which he has familiarized himself through studies at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He has also kept a small menagerie in his studio at Meudon.
Almost every available graphic