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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1939.

Cornelia Chapin a Sculptor. 
Cornelia Van A. Chapin's work as a sculptor is her life. She has spend the last five years in Paris studying with Mateo Hernandez, the great Spanish sculptor. Yesterday in her 38th St. studio, originally built by Gutzon Borglum, she remarked that it was strange that she should end up in that part of New York. For Miss Chapin's mother was born on Fifth Ave.  at 38th St., and her great-grandfather's house at Park Ave. and 36th St. still stands.

This successful artist pays no attention to social functions, for she feels that if you have been doing the social game for dozens of years it palls. 

Ever since she was a child she was interested in sculpture, and when still at school she started modeling. "All the time I was modeling I had mental reservations, for I wanted to do my work in stone. To me sculpture is cutting away rather than building." For this reason she went to Paris, because Mateo Hernandez felt as she did.

Represented in Exposition

As the result of years of work Miss Chapin has the satisfaction of knowing that she is one of thirty-five American sculptors represented in the Golden gate International Exposition and she is a juror on the Sculptor's Jury for the Contemporary Art Exhibition in the New York World's Fair.

Because she likes animals "perhaps better than animal beings" and thinks they have a more universal appeal the majority of her pieces are of them, but she also does portrait reliefs by order. 

here for an indefinite stay, Miss Chapin still prefers working in Paris. "One of the pleasures of working in Paris," she said, "is that you can remain a serious-minded bespectacled sculptor. Here you have to combine the things." But she said she never wants to become an expatriated American. During her years abroad she returned every Christmas to be with her sister and brother and their families. "When I started in as a sculptor," she said, "it was all right, but you didn't talk about it. Now everyone is proud of it and my family are very proud of the fact that I work hard."

San Francisco Presents One Man's Opinion of Living American Art

Golden Gate Special Number

Rounding out the sculpture section are well picked examples by Ahron Ben-Shmuel, Henry Brenner, Alexander Calder, Cornelia Chapin, Hunt Diederich, Herbert Ferber, Laura Gardner Fraser, Vincent Glinsky, Minna Harkavy, Milton Hebald, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Henry Kreis, Robert Laurent, Paul Manship, Carl Milles, Albin Polasek, Harry Rosin, Rafael Sabatini, Helene Sardeau, Carl T. Schmitz, Maurice Sterne, Albert T. Stewart, Emmanuel Viviano, and Warren Wheelock.

The above names are selected arbitrarily to indicate the scope of the Golden Gate exhibition, just as the reproductions that accompany this article were picked to indicate the variety. This does not pretend to be a listing of the best in the show, but merely a sampling of what is there. Go, spend many hours, forget critics, foreign and domestic, and decide if American has an American art.

McKinney, who long ago gave up counting sheep in favor of counting steps, awaits your decision-and along with him wait San Francisco, all America and, maybe, those Paris art critics who last summer so loudly admired our bath-tubs, films and automobiles.

15TH MARCH
1939
25 CENTS

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