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The Silo
Published by Millbrook School HRH

Volume VII Number V Millbrook, New York, May 13, 1939  Twenty-five cents a copy

Sculptress Chapin Lectures on Carving
By E. R. Biddle

The school was very fortunate several weeks ago in having Miss Cornelia Chapin give an informal lecture on the fundamentals of stone carving and modelling.  Miss Chapin brought along with her a "Suzy Ellen," as she called it, which was a wire framework which a a sculptor uses as a skeleton for a figure that has to stand up.

After speaking about the fundamentals in sculpture, Miss Chapin went on to describe what it felt like when she first had to stone cut from live animals in front of the public at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris.  For about eight years, she has been studying animal sculptry in Paris with Mateo Hernandez, a noteworthy Spanish sculptor.

Miss Chapin's style is based on simplicity.  Her animals seem to be alive, and in each one, she catches the essential characteristics in a few beautiful lines. She works in hard stones, usually diorites and basalts.  Perhaps her most distinguished piece of sculpture was her elephant, 
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Sculptress Chapin Lectures on Carving

(Continued from page 1, col. 4) which took the second Grand Prix at the international exposition in Paris.

In addition, she had on hand a few tools such as a spoke shave instrument and square-cut hammers of which she explained the use.  After speaking, Miss Chapin produced a small Guinea Pig which is one of her most beautiful pieces of sculpture.

Miss Chapin, whose works are exhibited at bot the New York and San Francisco fairs this year, is one of America's foremost sculptresses.