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Wednesday, March 22, 1939.
THE DAILY STANDARD
Red Bank New Jersey
Page 7
Sculptor Presents Demonstration Before Woman's Club

Redbank Register March 16th 39
Cornelia Chapin Noted Sculptress, To Speak To Guild
Woman's Group of Trinity Church to Hear Artist Tuesday Afternoon
Cornelia VanAuken Chapin, well-known animal sculptress, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Woman's guild of Trinity Episcopal church Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Episcopal parish house on West Front street. Miss Chapin, who is a member of the jury of selection of contemporary fine arts for the New York WOrld's Fair, will give an actual demonstration of her work. She was secured through the efforts of Mrs. Walter Rullman, a guild member.
Miss Chapin studied modeling at New York with Gail Sherman Corbett and Genevieve Hamlin, and in 1934 went to Paris to study. Here she was accepted as the only pupil of Mateo Hernandez, who taught her to cut stone and wood direct from life without making preliminary models or sketches.
She has been an exhibitor since 1930. At present pieces of her work are on view at the Fifteen Gallery at New York. She has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, at the National Association of WOmen Painters and Sculptors Municipal Painters and Sculptors Municipal Art gallery and Fruend gallery at New York Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Salon Des Tuileries and Salon d'Automne in Paris. Ms Chapin also showed some of her work at the International Exposition of Art and Technique at Paris in 1937. Last April she conducted a one-man show at the Fifteen Gallery and also exhibited at the outdoor show of the Sculptors' guild at the Brooklyn museum and at the Arden Gallery modern museum at Washington, D. C.
This sculptress has the distinction of being the only foreign and only woman sculptor member of the Societaire Salon d'Automne of Paris. She is also a member of the National Sculpture society, first stage of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Sculptors guild, Fifteen Gallery Artist group and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors of New York.
She received the ANna Hyatt Huntington prize for sculpture in 1936 and second grand prize of Stone Sculpture at the International Exposition of Art and Technique in Paris in 1937 at the United States pavilion. Her work is represented in private collections in Paris, London, New York and Philadelphia. Some of her works are now being shown at the San Francisco Golden Gate exposition.

Cornelia Chapin Guest Speaker
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin who has recently returned from five years Paris studying with Mateo Hernandez, the great Spanish sculptor, gave a demonstration of her work yesterday afternoon before the Woman's Guild of Trinity Episcopal Church in the Parish House. She was secured through the efforts of Mrs. Walter Rullman of Red Bank.
Miss Chapin is a member of one of New York's oldest families yet she pays no social functions for as she expressed it, "When you have been doing the social game for years in palls." She is a member of the jury of selection of contemporary fine arts for the New York WOrld's Fair. She studied modeling in New York with Gail Sherman Corbett and Genevieve Hamlin, and in 1934 went the Paris to study, Henandez taught her to cut stone and wood direct from life without making preliminary sketches or models. She now has several pieces of her work displayed at the Fifteen Gallery, New York.
She has exhibited at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors Municipal Art Gallery at New York, Pennsylvania Academy, Phiadelphia, Solon Des Tuileries and Solon d'Automne in Paris. Last April she conducted a one-man show at the Fifteen Gallery and also exhibited at the outdoor show of the Sculptor's guild, at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Arden Gallery Modern Museum, Washington, D. C.
In 1936 she received the Anna Hyatt Huntington prize for sculpture and second grade prize of Stone sculpture at the international Exposition of Art and Technique in Paris in 1937 at the United States Pavilion. Her  work is represented in private collections in Paris, London, New York and Philadelphia. Some of her works are shown at San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition.
Miss Chapin's work as a sculptor is her life. Because she likes animals intensely she more frequently uses them as her models than human beings. Here for an indefinite stay Miss Chapin intends to return to Paris for she says that in that city you can remain "a serious-minded bespectacled sculptor." Always during her years abroad she returned to spend Christmas with her brother and sister and their families. When doing a big piece she puts in seven or eight hours work a day.
Last April she conducted a one-man show at the Fifteen Gallery and also exhibited at the outdoor show of the Sculptor's Guild at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Arden Gallery Modern Museum, Washington, D. D. She has the distinction of being the only foreign and only woman sculptor member of the Societaire Salon d'Automne of Paris. 
Rev. Herbert S. Craig, rector of the church, openeed the meeting. Mrs. Harry Sutton presided. About 125 members and guests attended.