Charles Chapel Judson (October 15, 1864 - November 4, 1946) was an American painter and educator. He taught in the Art department at the

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for two decades.

Life

Judson was born on October 15, 1864, in Detroit, Michigan, and he grew up in

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. He was trained as a painter at the

San Francisco School of Design San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...

as well as in Paris and Munich. Judson was the founder of the Art department at the

, where he taught from 1902 to 1923, and he was the chair from 1921 to 1923. He was the president of the Carmel Art Association and the Monterey History and Art Association, and a member of the

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. Judson married the daughter of watercolorist

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. He died on November 4, 1946, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, at age 82. His work can be seen at the

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