 
Vintage Signed Lithograph by James Chapin - Boy With Clarinet
 Vintage pencil signed lithograph by James Chapin of a young clarinet player. The work measures 15 1/2" by 11". The clarinet player is beautifully portrayed, you can almost hear the notes he is playing. The vintage clothing and the divided light door with glass door knob dates the time period to the 1930's. Condition is fair. The image is darkened by exposure to sunlight, has creasing of the paper mostly in the margins but has one in the upper right corner, and a thin hole that measures 1/4" long by 1/16" wide. In addition, old tape that held the framed image in place is on all the edges. However, in a frame with the right mat, these faults would all but disappear.
A portrait and figure artist, James Chapin first studied at New York's Cooper Union and the Art Students League. He won major awards at both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago that launched his career as a major painter and printmaker. His first experiments with original lithography were made in the early 1930's. Altogether, Chapin created about thirty works of art in this medium. His works are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Newark Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, Denver Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
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