Frank Tolles Chamberlin
Frank Tolles Chamberlin | |
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| Born | March 10, 1873 |
| Died | July 24, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Art Students League |
| Known for | painting |
| Awards | 1911 Rome Prize |
Frank Tolles Chamberlin (March 10, 1873 San Francisco - July 24, 1961 Pasadena, California) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, and art teacher.
He studied at the Art Students League with George DeForest Brush and George Bridgman. He taught for four years at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and spent summers at the MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop).
He taught at the Otis Institute, in 1921, as a founding faculty member at the Chouinard Art Institute, and at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.[1][2][3] His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[4]
In 1918, he married Katharine Beecher Stetson, the only daughter of artist Charles Walter Stetson and writer/feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Awards[]
- 1911 Rome Prize
Exhibitions[]
- 1913 New York Architectural League
- 1914 Boston Architectural Club, Massachusetts
- 1916 The MacDowell Club, New York
- 1921 Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles
- 1922 Sculptors Guild of Southern California
- 1929, 1945 California Palace of the Legion of Honor
- 1934 Public Works of Art Project
- 1935 Academy of Western Painters, Los Angeles
- 1939 GGIE
- 1940 California Watercolor Society
- 1942 University of Redlands, California
- 1947 Jepson Art Institute
- 1955 Pasadena Art Museum retrospective [5]
Awards[]
- 1935 2nd prize, Academy of Western Painters (LA)
- 1936 James Ackley McBride Award, Pasadena Society of Artists
- 1940 Logan Medal of the Arts, Los Angeles Branch of Society for Sanity in Art
References[]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Frank Tolles Chamberlin, Pasadena". www.publicartinla.com.
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ "Tolles Chamberlin". Olympedia. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
- ^ [3][dead link]
External links[]
- Chamberlin, Frank Tolles (San Francisco, 1873 - Pasadena, 1961)
- "Frank Tolles Chamberlain (American, 1873-1961)", Artnet
- The Peabody Art Collection
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- American muralists
- 19th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 20th-century American painters
- 1873 births
- 1961 deaths
- Artists from San Francisco
- Artists from New Rochelle, New York
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 19th-century American sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- American male sculptors
- National Sculpture Society members
- MacDowell Colony fellows
- Sculptors from California
- Sculptors from New York (state)
- Olympic competitors in art competitions