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"INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM"

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PENGUIN, CARVED FROM LIFE IN BLACK GRANITE

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TURTLE, CARVED FROM LIFE IN VOLCANIC ROCK

felt most like assuming the right pose."

The animals which decorate the studio and peer so fixedly at the embarrassed visitor all have the separate and distinct personalities. The turtle is a smooth round pile of patience; the penguin is tremendously pompous and impertinent; the immense frog is filled with his own importance. But the hand of the one artist is easily discernible in their one great common trait-simplicity. All their elegance comes, paradoxically, from their complete simplicity. It is not a matter of stylization. Look twice and you see that any one of these placid creatures is as realistic as the real article. Miss Chapin visualizes animals as a whole, in the round, without the microscopic analysis of sundry details and without distortion. Her little guinea pig, carved from lithographic stone, is as simple in outline as a large drop of water-but he's just as quick.

Miss Chapin, a New Yorker by family ties, was born in Connecticut, studied with Hernandez in Paris. At the Paris International Exhibition of Arts and Technique last year she won

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AUGUST, 1938
THIRTY-FIVE CENTS
IN GREAT BRITAIN 2/6