Frank Tolles Chamberlin (March 10, 1873 - July 24, 1961) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, and art teacher. He studied at the

Art Students League The Art Students League of New York is an art school at 215 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists. Although artists may stu ...

with George DeForest Brush and George Bridgman. He taught for four years at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and spent summers at the

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. He taught at the Otis Institute, in 1921, as a founding faculty member at the

Chouinard Art Institute The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879–1969) in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1961, Walt and Roy Disney guided the merger of the Chouinard Art I ...

, and at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

School of Architecture. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1918, he married Katharine Beecher Stetson, the only daughter of artist Charles Walter Stetson and writer/feminist

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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

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* 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

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retrospective

Awards

* 1911

Rome Prize The Rome Prize is awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in Rome, Italy. Approximately thirty scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a study fellowship at the academy. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1921, with a hiatus ...

* 1935 2nd prize, Academy of Western Painters (LA) * 1936 James Ackley McBride Award, Pasadena Society of Artists * 1940

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, Los Angeles Branch of Society for Sanity in Art

References

External links

Chamberlin, Frank Tolles (San Francisco, 1873 - Pasadena, 1961)
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