Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topping them all was the James Chapin retrospective at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. For it, Critic Edward Alden Jewell went off the deep end. Wrote he: "It establishes his position as second to none in our contemporary roster. It contains some of the finest painting of our time. It ... constitutes a full and ringing American challenge. In a word, this show is the real thing...
...American but post-Impressionist French were the canvases of agile, sensitive James Chapin up to 1924. Cézanne was his idol. That year he left Greenwich Village, took a walking trip in the hills of northern New Jersey. There he found a two-room log cabin, decided it would be a quiet place to paint. He rented it for $4 a month from the Marvins, a tightfisted, hard-working farm family...
Soon Artist Chapin got so absorbed in spare, taciturn, unschooled Emmet, George and Ella Marvin that he stopped painting cubist arrangement of rocks, scaffolding and apple trees, became instead a limner of the U. S. scene long before it became the popular thing. The suspicious Marvins would not pose at first, thawed when he worked with them in the fields, helped round up the pigs. For five years he stirred from the farm no more than the Marvins did, sketched them ploughing, foxhunting, planting potatoes, sharpening a scythe, clustered round their old iron kitchen range. The paintings that resulted...
...Mike Jennings will be counted upon in the 35 pound weight throw while Ernie Parshall, last season's Freshman captain, will probably be the only entrant in the shot put. Yale will be insufferably weak in the broad jump with Read Murphy as its only prospect. Manager Mel Chapin will pair with Woody Rich in the high jump and they promise to be the real dark horses on the Ell squad. If Rich's ankle regains its former strength he may pull a real surprise...