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Artist
Title

Study of a Workman I

Date
1943
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Graphite on Arches paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. , Window: 8 x 6 in.
Style
Social Realism
Object Type
Drawings
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by David Shurbutt in memory of his son, Kai
Accession Number
2021.01.02
Copyright
In Copyright, Rights Holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable
© Estate of James Ormsbee Chapin
Description

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Chapin obtained solid artistic training at The Cooper Union and The Art Students League of New York, followed by two years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In 1924 he moved to rural New Jersey, where he recorded the life of local people in a straightforward style that predated the American Scene imagery of the 1930s. Nine Workmen (1985.042.21) exemplifies the qualities that premier Regionalist painter Grant Wood afforded to Chapin’s paintings in a 1940 exhibition catalogue published by the Associated American Artists as “among the best things in American art, strong and solid as boulders. They were full of the pain and bleakness of a frugal existence of the land, yet possessed a subtle, melancholy beauty of their own.”

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