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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1939
Sculptor Presen

WOMEN'S OPEN TABLE
NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
Monday, February 20, 1939 at 7:00 P.M.

"CARVING DIRECT FROM LIFE"
Some Tales and Tools
a talk by
CORNELIA CHAPIN

Only pupil of Hernandez in Paris. Miss Chapin has exhibited in all the leading exhibitions in this country and abroad, and was the only woman sculptor elected in 1936 as a Societaire Salon d'Automne, Paris.

MISS HARRIET BLACKSTONE
is a chairman and will introduce the speaker.

Please Make Reservations Early At Secretary's Office
Dinner $1.00

NATIONAL ARTS BROADCAST
SCULPTURE AND TEXTILES AT WOMEN'S OPEN TABLE
On the evening of Monday, February 20, the Women's Open Table had as guest and speaker Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin, noted American sculptor. Miss Harriet Blackstone introduced her friend, whose career she had followed with loving interest. Miss Chapin declared that Harriet Blackstone, with her creative flame, had been a source of inspiration and with her encouragement had helped her in those moments of hesitation and doubt which enter the life of every creative artist.

Miss Chapin studied with the great Spanish sculptor, Mater Hernandez, in Paris and from him learned the art of modeling and carving directly from stone. Her master says of her:

"In Cornelia Chapin we have one woman who has the daring, the admirable energy and discipline to partice the technique of direct carving from life in blocks of hard stone and wood of all kinds. Her figures have each a distinct personality, the essential quality of each individual type."

For models Miss Chapin visited the zoo in Paris. She gave us a humorous sketch of herself wheeling a small wagon with the stone and instruments for her carving. She showed us the hammers and other tools with which she works and indicated her manner of carving.

In 1936 Miss Chapin was the only woman sculptor elected as a Societaire Salon d'Automme, Paris. Her work is in all the large exhibitions and in private collections in New York and Paris.

On Monday evening, march 6, Miss Ethel lewis was the guest and speaker at the Women's Open Table. Her subject was "The Romance of Textiles." Miss