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Long Branch, N.J.
RECORD

[[stamp]] MAR 20 1939 [[/stamp]]

R.B. Women's Guild Will Hear Speaker

Miss Cornelia Chaplin, Animal Sculptress, to Speak Tuesday

RED BANK, March 20.-Cornelia VanAuken Chapin, well-known animal sculptress, will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Women's Guild at Trinity Episcopal Church tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the parish house, 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 studies 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, New York.

She has exhibited at the National Academy of Design, at the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors Municipal Art Gallery at New York, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, Salon Des Tuileries and Salon 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 Sculptors' Guild, at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Arden Gallery Modern Museum, Washington, D.C.  She 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.

Miss Chapin received the Anna Hyatt Huntington prize for sculptore 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 work are now being shown at the San Francisco Golden Gate exposition.

ASHBURY PARK, N.J.
PRESS

[[stamp]] MAR 22 1939 [[/stamp]]

Trinity Woman's Guild Sees Sculpture of Cornelia Chapin
(Staff Correspondent)
RED BANK - Cornelia VanAuken Chopin, well known animal sculptress, who spent considerable time in Red Bank during her childhood, and who is a friend of Mrs. Walter Rullman, also a popular sculptress, presented a demonstration of her work at a meeting of the Woman's Guild of Trinity Episcopal church yesterday afternoon in the parish house.

Mrs. Chapin is a member of the jury of selection of contemporary fine arts for the New York World's Fair, and explained that the has a frog on show at the New York fair, and a bear, which she modelled from a live bear from Paris, at the Golden Gate exposition in San Francisco.

Mrs. Chapin is the only foreign and only woman sculpture member of the Societarie Salon d'Automne of Paris.  She studied modeling at New York with Gail Sherman Corbett and Genevieve Hamlin, and in 1934 went to Paris to study.  There 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. 

Mrs. Chapin has been an exhibitor since 1930.

At a short business session before the program, at which Mrs. Harry Sutton presided, announcement was made of the rummage sale to be given on Monmouth street tomorrow from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. under the direction of Mrs. Fred Munden and Mrs. Rullman, co-chairmen.

There were about 125 persons present and refreshment were served at the close of the program, with Mrs. Harrison Bance and Mrs. W. Raymond Johnson presiding at the tea table.  Hostesses were Mrs. J. Otis Davis, chairman, Mrs. Warren T. Bookwalter, Mrs. Charles Norris, Mrs. Frank Haviland, Mrs. H.F. Barlett and Miss Margaret Christian.

RED BAN REGISTER
Woman's Guild Hears Sculptress
Cornelia Chapin Gives Lecture - 125 Attend

Cornelia VanAuken Chapin, well known animal sculptress, was guest speaker at a meeting of the Woman's Guild of Trinity Episcopal church Tuesday.  More than 125 attended the session.

Miss Chapin, who has pieces of her work exhibited at the New York World's fair and at the Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco, gave an actual demonstration of her work in carving animals from life. She explained the use of her various tools and told interesting experiences encountered while working.  Miss Chapin also explained wood carving, which she does as well as sculpturing.

The sculptress is a member of the jury of selectin of contemporary fine arts for the New York World's fair.  She spent much of her childhood here and is a friend of Mrs. Walter Rullman of West Front street, also sculptress.  She was secured as a speaker through the efforts of Mrs. Rullman, who is a member of the guild.