Frank Tolles Chamberlin

Frank Tolles Chamberlin (March 10, 1873 San Francisco - July 24, 1961 Pasadena, California) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, and art teacher.

Frank Tolles Chamberlin
BornMarch 10, 1873
San Francisco, California
DiedJuly 24, 1961
Pasadena, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationArt Students League
Known forpainting
Awards1911 Rome Prize

He studied at the Art Students League with George DeForest Brush and George Bridgman. He taught for four years at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, and spent summers at the MacDowell Colony.

He taught at the Otis Institute, in 1921, as a founding faculty member at the Chouinard Art Institute, and at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.[1][2][3] His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[4]

In 1918, he married Katharine Beecher Stetson, the only daughter of artist Charles Walter Stetson and writer/feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Awards

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 California Palace of the Legion of Honor
  • 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 Pasadena Art Museum retrospective [5]

Awards

References
  2. "Frank Tolles Chamberlin, Pasadena". www.publicartinla.com.
  4. "Tolles Chamberlin". Olympedia. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
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