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September 1939

Miss Chapin was born in the Township of Waterford, Connecticut; she pursued her studies in New York, modeling with a variety of teachers, though sculpture in the sense of "cutting away" rather than building up in soft material had always been her ambition. 

In Paris, in 1934, Miss Chapin was accepted as a pupil by the great Spanish sculptor, Mateo Hernandez, who had recreated for himself in the mountain fastnesses of Spain the art of the ancients, carving direct from life in stone, with no making of models before touching the block of granite or marble. Cutting painstakingly and directly into the stone, the work was all done by hand, from the first roughing out to the final polishing. While the greater part of her work is of animal figures in the round, Miss Chapin also cuts nudes and portraits in a variety of media. 

In her one-man exhibition at the Fifteen Gallery, 37 West 57th Street, New York City, last April, Miss Chapin showed sixteen of her pieces, including her "Young Elephant," carved direct from life in an African tree (aloyous). This was awarded the second Anna Hyatt Huntington prize for sculpture at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1936, and her group of three animals, "Pelican-in-repose," carved direct in Greek Marble; "Tortoise," carved direct in volcanic rock, and "Penguin," carved direct in black granite, which were shown at the United States Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition of Art and Technique of 1937, and recommended for a Second Grand Prize, Class of Stone Sculpture, by the International Jury representing forty-five nations. 

Besides belonging to the Fifteen Gallery group, Miss Chapin is a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the National Arts Club, and was elected "Societaire" of the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1936, the only foreign woman and the only feminine sculptor elected that year. Since 1930, Miss Chapin has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Municipal Art Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, the Freund Gallery, etc., as well as the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne in Paris. 

MEDAL TO PRESIDENT'S MOTHER

IN recognition of "a lifetime of devoted service to every communal cause in the country," Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, received in the Albert Einstein medal for humanitarianism on April 3rd, 1938 at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, in New York City. 

More than 1,600 persons attended the ceremony, which was conducted under the auspices of the Jewish Forum. 

The medal was presented to Mrs. Roosevelt by Mrs Estelle M. Sternberger, general director of World Peaceways and 1936 recipient of the award. James W. Gerard, former United States Ambassador to Germany, was chairman of the award committee. 

Mrs. Roosevelt, in a brief speech, accepted the medal "quite humbly" and with "great gratitude." 

Mr. Gerard, in opening the ceremony, said Mrs. Roosevelt was being honored not alone for her relationship to the President, but "for herself and her broad sympathy and activities in alleviating the conditions of all people throughout the world who suffer from poverty, oppression and hatred."

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. 
-R.L. Stevenson.

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