This is Francis Chapin

Francis W. Chapin (February 14, 1899 – February 23, 1965) was an American artist. His works included both watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes and portraits.

He was born in Bristolville, Ohio. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, where he was a devotee of Phi Delta Theta, in 1921. A year later he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where he spent six years and won the Bryan Lathrop Fellowship in his last year. He chose to remain in Chicago where he became known as the “Dean of Chicago Painters.” It wasn’t until 1929 like he hosted his first pair of one-man shows.

Chapin was an hypothetical at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1929 to 1947. In 1932, Chapin was approached by Grant Wood and well-liked a capability position at the Stone City Art Colony, where he taught lithography for two summers. His achievement was also allowance of the painting thing in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. From 1934 to 1938, he taught at Art Institute of Chicago’s summer art hypothetical at Saugatuck, Michigan, and he served as director of the summer assistant professor from 1941 to 1945. He was moreover the Artist-in-Residence at the Old Sculpin Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard for many years. In 1951, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full aficionado in 1953.

Among Chapin’s notable showings were at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. His works are in permanent collections at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum (NYC), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Syracuse University, and further museums.

Chapin died in his home at 347 Menomonee Street in Chicago upon February 23, 1965. In reporting his death, one newspaper described Chapin’s publicize as follows: “he was a lustrous figure, nearly 6 feet 6 inches tall, and thin, and usually wearing tweeds.”

Chapin’s papers are held in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.