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THE SPRINGFIELD DAILY NEWS; SPRINGFIELD; MASS.: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938 CHAPIN DEMONSTRATION WILL BE GIVEN TONIGHT The George Walter Vincent Smith Art gallery will present Cornelia Van Auken Chapin in a lecture-demonstration on sculpture tonight at 8.15. Miss Chapin carves directly from stone, wood or any hard substance, not using preliminary sketches or clay models of any kind. It is an unusual technic today, which very few living sculptors employ, but is well exemplified in the work of the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians and Greeks. Cornelia Chapin is the pupil of the great Spanish sculptor, Mateo Hernandez, who says of her, "In Cornelia Chapin we have one woman who has the daring, the admirable energy and discipline to practice the technic of direct carving from life in blocks of hard stone and wood of all kinds. Her figures have such a distinct personality, the essential quality of each individual type." Miss Chapin's talks are not academic, they are "direct carving" in words, illustrated with the tools used by her, such as the unblocked piece of stone down to the finished sculpture. This demonstration is one in the series of art technics which this museum has featured. It is open to the public and is free of charge. Cornelia Chapin has exhibited widely in this country and abroad. She was awarded the second grand prize at the Paris Exposition of Art and Technic, 1937, and held a one-man show in New York last April. Miss Chapin is a direct descendant of Dea Samuel Chapin, one of the founders of the city, and her great-grandfather was Chester W. Chapin, so her visit to Springfield has unusual interest. NEW YORK, N.Y. American Art News Nov 5 - 1938 AN EXHIBITION of the black and white work of the artists associated with the Fifteen Gallery is on view, and affords an opportunity to see these painters and sculptors in a less familiar medium. One is not surprised to find drawings of perspicacity by Cornelia Chapin, her Guinea pig Family being a delightful interpretation of this somewhat unsympathetic breed. Hans Scheidecker and Beulah Stevenson come off most successfully in black and white, confirming one's impression of the strong basic pattern on which their work in color rests. Herbert Tschudy's drawings are completely characteristics of his style, the drawing Midwest and a Nude being most successful. Both Charles Aiken and Isabel Whitney indicate their feeling for the delicate line of plants and flowers. Springfield Republican CORNELIA CHAPIN TALK SET FOR TUESDAY NIGHT Sculptor to Give Demonstration of Direct Carving From Stone Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, an American sculptor, will give an illustrated, talk on "Technic of direct carving," Tuesday evening at 8.15 at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art gallery. This lecture is open to the public, free of charge. Miss Chapin will demonstrate from an unblocked piece of stone the way sculpture is chipped from any hard substance, granite, marble or wood. She uses no preliminary sketches, but works directly in the hard block of stone. She will also show examples of some of her finished work. Miss Chapin's visit is especially interesting in this locality as she is a direct descendant of Dea Samuel Chapin, who is commemorated in the St Gaudens statue, "The Puritan." Friday evening at 8.20, W. G. Rogers, art critic, will talk on the loan exhibition, "Mobiles of Alexander Calder," at the Smith gallery. There has been considerable interest in this exhibit and many people will welcome an opportunity of hearing a discussion on this new art form. This lecture is open to the public. Sun. November 13.'38
