Frank Tolles Chamberlin
American artist (1873–1961)
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Frank Tolles Chamberlin (March 10, 1873 – July 24, 1961) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, and art teacher.
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| Born | March 10, 1873 San Francisco, California, US |
| Died | July 24, 1961 (aged 88) |
| Education | Art Students League |
| Known for | painting |
| Awards | 1911 Rome Prize |
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 MacDowell.
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.
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
- 1911 Rome Prize
- 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