AW611: : James Ormsbee Chapin C 1942 - "Carolina Native” Oil on Canvas -

James Ormsbee Chapin (1887 - 1975) - C 1942 - Oil on Canvas - "Carolina Native" Impressionist Portrait. Dimensions: Frame: 28 3/4" x 21 1/2"; Sight: 20" x 13"; Signed Lower Right; Framed.

Provenance: With ACA Galleries 1529 W. 20th St., 5th flr NY NY 10011 (label on verso).

Comments: James Ormsbee Chapin - born in West Orange, New York in 1887 and died in 1975.  He studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York and attended the Antwerp Royal Academy. He was also a member of the Society of Independent Painters of America.

Chapin's works are represented in the permanent collections of many institutions such as The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Phillips Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Art Institute, The Norton Museum, The Fogg Museum, the San Diego Art Institute, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Newark Museum, Amherst College, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Asheville Art Museum, The Currier Gallery of Art, the Five College Museums Collections, The Harvard Art Museums and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. His work had a significant impact on the early history of Regionalist Artists Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood with his 192's series of portraits of the Marvin family in rural New Jersey.

He was the father of jazz musician Jim Chapin  and grandfather of folk singer Harry Chapin.