Chapin's works have been included in more than 40 Museum and Gallery exhibits including the Louvre, Grand Palais in Paris; RJ Schaffer Museum; Colorado Historical Museum; National Arts Club; the Audubon and American Embassies world wide. Corporate collectors include John Nuveen Company, Federal Reserve Bank, Jewett Inc., Pardoe Properties and Shultz Inc. among others. Solo exhibitions include museums and galleries in New York; Washington DC; California and Connecticut, Paris and Hamburg.

Group exhibitions have included the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Salon des Independants, and National Art Club exhibitions to name a few. Selected for inclusion in the "Ketterer Marine Exhibition/Auction" in Hamburg. The exhibition represented 17th - 20th paintings in the marine genre. Published in the Who's Who in American Art and work exhibited in the Arts For the Parks 2001.

Chapin has been selected a signature/artist member of the following organizations: National Arts Club, Societe Nationale Des Beaux Arts, Artist Fellowship, Artist of America, American Artists Professional League, California Art Club, Southern Vermont Art Center and American Society of Marine Artists. A leader in the plein air painting genre and recently founded the Professional Plein Air Painters group, the NAPPAP. Over the past five years the NAPPAP has grown and spawned the Florida Plein Air Painters, the NY Plein Air Painters and a host of online communities. Also founded of the NAPPAP Cultural Alliance and the NY Central Park Paintout. The combination of which totals a membership of 237 members. Biographies have been included in the Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon* (56 Vol. Dictionary of Artists), which is the standard for reference of Museum's worldwide; Dictionary of Sea Painters, book by Edward Archibald, London; Yacht Portraits, book published by Sheridan Press/Overseas Press, Milan, IT. Has written articles for the American Artist Magazine and interviewed by US Art, Chesapeake Bay Magazine etc. Studied at the National Academy with Raymond Kinstler in a master class and an Academic Atelier with Sam Adoquei at the National Academy. Published a handbook on plein air painting entitiled "Capturing Life and Movement en Plein Air". Degree from MWC/UVA in 1976 and graduate studies certificate in French Studies, USDA, Washington, DC 1990-1993.
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Professional Credentials:
Museum Exhibitions:

  • National Arts Club - Gregg Gallery, One-Person Exhibition, New York - September 1998, 2003 - Preview Available
  • Audubon Naturalist Society, One-Person Exhibitions - 1992, 1994, 1995, 2002.
  • Twenty-First Northwest Marine Art Exhibition, Kirsten Gallery - 2002.
  • Impressions of New England - Bennington VT - 2002.
  • Salon International 2002, Greenhouse Gallery - San Antonio, TX - 2002.
  • Arts for the Parks Finalist - Jackson Hole - 2001
  • Beaux Arts Bash, Scottsdale Artist School, Scottsdale, AZ - 2001- 2004
  • Ketterer Kunst Hamburg, 17th- 20th Century Marine Art - 252. Auction, - Sept 2000.
  • Louvre - Salon de Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris - June 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Southern Vermont Art Center, One Person Exhibition - June, 2000.
  • Annual Exhibiting Artist Members’ Exhibition, National Arts Club, 1998, 1999,
  • 2002, 2003
  • Meridian International Center, One-Person Exhibition -1997, 1992.
  • Salmagundi Open, Salmagundi Club, NYC - 1996.
  • Grand National, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, NYC - 1995.
  • Baku, Azerbaijan (formerly in USSR), American Embassy-1995-98.
  • Grand Palais, <Salon des Indèpendants>, Paris, France - 1994, 1993 2003.
  • Catharine Lorillard Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC- 1994, 1983, 1982.
  • Bogota, Colombia, American Embassy -1995-98. (catalog Published)
  • Sanaa, Yemen, American Embassy - 1995-98.
  • Quito, Ecuador, American Embassy - 1993-96.
  • United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, American Embassy - 1992-95. (catalog published)
  • Colorado Historical Museum, "Artists of America Exhibition", Denver, CO - 1988. (catalogues published)
  • Maryland Historical Museum, Baltimore, MD - 1989.
  • San Diego Maritime Museum, one-person exhibit - 1988.
  • Carnegie Art Museum, one-person exhibit – 1988.
  • Ventura Co. Maritime Museum, one-person exhibit. 1988.
  • Mariners Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia - 1986.
 

Professional Credentials: Bibiographies

Chapin’s biographical sketch is featured in the:
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (Dictionary of Artists), published by Saur in Leipzig, GE v. 15; Fall 1997 which is the standard for reference of Museum’s worldwide. It is a complete and exact biographical data spanning the entire world-wide spectrum of arts from antiquity up to present with over 300,000 artists and a selection of exhibitions by these artists . Based on the structured data of the encyclopedia Thieme-Becker and Vollmer (the predecessors of the AKL) complete from A to Z and the structured data of the AKL as the printed version goes on. Currently from A to "Campagnari". Data from Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, published in printed form by K. G. Saur Verlag.

  • Gerlinde de Beer (auth), monograph, Ludolf Backhuysen, p.56, 2001.
  • Who's Who in American Art, 24th, 25th edition 2001, 2003.
  • The Artists Blue Book, Bibliography summary, 2000-2003
  • Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Maritime Kunst Catalogue, Hamburg, GE -Auction 2 Sept, 2000.
  • International Artist, Masters Painters of the World, "Etude Des Roches", Australia - June 2000.
  • Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (Dictionary of Artists), published by Saur in Leipzig, GE v. 15; Fall 1997
  • American Artist Magazine, Sea & Surf en plein air, NYC - October 1995 (copies available).
  • Exposition Catalogue, Catalogue listing, Salon des Ind`ependants, Paris - 1993,1994.
  • US Art, interview by Gillian Judge, Adams Publishing, Minnesota, December 1990.
  • Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Chesapeake Communications, Maryland, May 1983, May 1990.
  • Dictionary of Sea Painters, book by Edward Archibald, London - June 1989.
  • American Artist Magazine, Billboard Publications, NYC - January 1988.
  • Yacht Portraits, book published by Sheridan Press/Overseas Press, Milan, IT - October 1987.

 

 

 

 

 

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