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JUNE 2938

EXHIBITIONS
CORNELIA CHAPIN'S recent one-man show at the Fifteen Gallery, consisting of animal and bird sculpture, drawings, wood engravings, a nude, and a portrait, has evoked much appreciative comment. 
We quote from The Art News:
"Magnificent is a word that is rarely used in connection with contemporary art. It is applicable, however, to the sculpture of Cornelia Chapin, just as it is to the art of the Assyrians, or of the ancient Egyptians themselves-and for identical reasons. These works have been directly carved, with infinite labor and also infinite subtlety, from some of the most enduring of all materials: volcanic rock and granite. They have all the vitality that amazes us in the animal sculptures of the Nile valley and, in common with the Egyptians, Miss Chapin has a living sense of design. Her stylization, by contrast with the average decorative reductions that pass under this name, serves to magnify the individuality of the model in addition to interpreting it in ideal sculptural terms.
"The most imposing piece among those now on view at the Fifteen Gallery is undoubtedly the enormous black granite frog. With amazing skill and patience the stubborn material has been wrought into a stream-lined, abstract design of greatest beauty, When it is considered that this creature actually emerged from the rock by taille directe, without mechanical aid, its subtlety of modeling and inviting perfection of surface are almost unbelievable. One of her most recent works, Miss Chapin in this has, both technically and artistically, equalled her teacher, Hernandez.
"In addition to their sculptural qualities, Cornelia Chapin endows her animals with a definite personality. The rose sandstone Pig has humor, the Pelican in Repose a beady, sagacious glance, and the black granite Penguin a farcical dignity.
"Contrasting with these is an exquisitely delicate intaglio woman's head whose pure line resembles that of the Florentine Renaissance profile portraits."

NATIONAL ARTS BULLETIN


NEW YORK SUN

JUN 24 1938
Notable Group Booked to Sail On Statendam

Miss Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Sculptor, Joins the Travelers.

Miss Cornelia Van Auken Chapin is among those sailing for Europe late this afternoon on the Statendam. Miss Chapin, who is widely known for her sculptural works, is a sister of Mrs. Francis Biddle of Philadelphia and of the Princess M. Caetani di Bassiano, who, with her son Camillo and daughter, Donna Lelia Caetani, came from her home in Italy to pass the spring with Miss Chapin in New York at the Carlyle. After traveling in Holland Miss Chapin will go to Paris

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