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This Clipping From Springfield, Mass. 
NEWS
Nov 14 1938 

MISS CHAPIN WILL TALK ON SCULPTURE 

The George Walter Vincent Smith Art gallery will present Cornelia Van Auken Chapin in a lecture-demonstration on sculpture, Tuesday evening 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 we are familiar with it 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 finsihed 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 exhiibted widely in this country and abroad. She was awarded the second Grand Prize ate the Paris Exhibition of Art and Technic, 1937, and held a one-man show in New York last April. Miss Chapin is a direct descendant of Deacon 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. 

This Clipping From Springfield, Mass.
REPUBLICAN 
Nov 15 1938

CHAPIN DEMONSTRATION WILL BE GIVEN TONIGHT

Sculptor to Show Direct Carving From Stone at Smith Art Gallery

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 ate 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.