"Ships in Harbor"   Lot no. 3837

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By Carlton Theodore Chapman (1860 - 1925)

20.00" x 24.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Carlton Chapman was born in 1860 in New London, Ohio. He spent his summers as a boy at his uncle’s shipyard in Maine, where his love of the sea grew. He moved to New York and studied painting at the Art Student’s League and at the National Academy. He studied naval architecture and the sea, and traveled to Europe where he viewed and studied the collections at the South Kensington Museum and the National Gallery in London. He took classes at the Académie Julian in Paris, and thereafter returned to New York.
As his marine paintings were accurately detailed and he understood naval architecture, as well as the movements created by wind upon the sea, he was commissioned by the U.S. Naval Academy to paint pictures of naval activities during the War of 1812. Many of which were later published as illustrations. During the Spanish American War, Harper’s Magazine Weekly sent him to sea with the U.S. Navy to Cuba as an active illustrator to cover the news as the engagements unfolded. He sent his war sketches for publication, staying with the Fleet until the conclusion of the war.
Chapman received many awards for his paintings, including: a Silver Medal in Boston in 1892, and several Bronze Medals at the World’s Colombian Exposition at Chicago in 1902. He was an associate of the American Watercolor Society, the New York Watercolor Club, New York Etching Club, Artists’ Fund Society, and the Century Association.
In 1911, Carleton Chapman married Aurelie Reynaud and they resided in Bronxville, NY. Chapman died on February 12th, 1925, in New York City.
His paintings are included in many important collections, including: the Naval Academy Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the de Young Memorial Museum, as well as the Duquesne Club, the Larchmont Yacht
Club, and the Atlantic Yacht Club.

 

 


Researched & written by Ann Marenakos, ASA, Adelaide Fine Art, via Ask Art