Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago nobody seems to care about many things connected with taste," says Ohio-born Artist Francis Chapin. But reservations about his fellow citizens' esthetic sensibilities have not kept Artist Chapin, 51, from spending most of the last 30 years in & around Chicago. By last week, Chicago had repaid his perseverance by awarding his bright, breezy Black Bull top painting honors and a $750 purse at the Art Institute's big 54th Annual Show...
Sketched on a Mexican vacation last year, Chapin's bullfight scene was a far cry from his better-known studies of Chicago's garish, soot-covered landmarks and blistering, blustering street scenes. But its brilliant colors and on-the-spot realism were laid on with the same bright and accurate brush that had long since brought him into the front ranks of Mid-Western artists...
Dingy Flats. What brought gawky (6 ft. 5 in.) Francis Chapin to Chicago as an art student in the first place was a conviction that the East, for all its galleries, dealers and big reputations, was dangerous for a painter's individuality. At Chicago's Art Institute "an artist had more chance to develop his own style," was not likely to be turned into a picayune Picasso or "little Kuniyoshi...