Object Details
Subject
Chapin, Cornelia Van Auken
Place of publication, production, or execution
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description
1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 12 cm.
Summary
Photo shows Chapin in a zoo in front of a pelican habitat. She has her sculpture on a wheeled cart and is working at it with hammer and chisel.
Handwritten note on verso reads: Cornelia Chapin at the zoo working on penguin in Paris.
Despite handwritten note, this sculpture appears to depict a pelican, perhaps Chapin's Pelican in repose of 1936.
Handwritten note on verso reads: Cornelia Chapin at the zoo working on penguin in Paris.
Despite handwritten note, this sculpture appears to depict a pelican, perhaps Chapin's Pelican in repose of 1936.
Citation
Cornelia Chapin working on a sculpture of a pelican in Paris, circa 1936. Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use Note
Current copyright status is undetermined
Location Note
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Date
circa 1936
Record number
(DSI-AAA)15804
Type
Photographs
Place
Paris, France
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Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988
Data Source
Archives of American Art
Topic
Animal sculptors
Animal sculpture
Record ID
AAADCD_item_15804