 
Vintage Signed Lithograph by James Ormsbee 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 very good. This lithograph has just come back from restoration and now shows the original tones and shading. A thin hole that measures 1/4" long by 1/16" wide was backed and infilled. It is framed in a period Art Deco style silver and back frame and has a new mat.
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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