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20 North
Gallery Presents Chapman & Stone Exhibit
Featuring paintings by prominent local
legacy artists with watercolor
demonstration by
Walter Chapman at free public reception
20
North Gallery proudly announces
Chapman & Stone: Lifelong Legacies in
Art, an exhibit of vivid watercolors
by Walter H. Chapman and impressionistic
oils by the late Ruskin Stone. These
two painters were friends, colleagues
and longtime members of Toledo’s
historic Tile Club. The exhibit runs
from August 7 – September 18,
2010.
The
exhibition consists of local and
national landscape scenes by both
artists, along with figure studies and
genre scenes of musicians—particularly
paintings of jazz players from New
Orleans to Tony Packo’s.
Walter
H. Chapman
(born 1912 in Toledo, Ohio) attended
Cleveland Art School and the John
Huntington Polytechnic Institute in
Cleveland, Ohio as well as the Art
Students League in New York City. He
also studied figure painting with Jon
Corbino, portrait painting with Rolf
Stoll and landscape painting with Carl
Gaertner.
Working in oil, watercolor and other
media, his work includes portraiture,
landscapes and illustration. As well as
teaching, Chapman also serves as an art
juror, demonstrator and lecturer.
Chapman was awarded a Bronze Star for
combat art during World War II. His
renderings were later published in
Battle of Germany by Theodore
Draper, Viking Press. Throughout his
career, he has won numerous first place
awards at shows affiliated with
Watercolor USA, Salmagundi Club,
Mainstreams International, Grumbacher
and the Toledo Federation of Art. He is
listed in Who’s Who in American Art,
Who’s Who in the Midwest,
Who’s Who in the World and Prize
Winning Art. He was honored with a
50-year retrospective show at the Toledo
Museum of Art and the Zanesville Art
Center in 1988.
Nationally, Chapman’s work is included
in the permanent collections of the
Springfield Museum of Art in Missouri;
the Southwest Museum of Art in Sun City,
Arizona; Brown University Library in
Providence, Rhode Island. Ohio, his
works can be found in the permanent
collections of the Canaday Library of
The University of Toledo; the Zanesville
Art Center; and the City of Sylvania.
He is a member of Allied Artists of
America, Watercolor USA Honor Society,
Ohio Watercolor Society, Ohio Realists,
Northwest Ohio Watercolor Society and
the Toledo Artists Club. He is also a
member of the prestigious Tile Club of
Toledo.
Mr. Chapman and his wife, Jean, operated
the Chapman Art Gallery in Sylvania for
35 years. They also maintain a winter
home and studio in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ruskin
Stone
(born
1906, Fostoria, Ohio – died 2003,
Toledo, Ohio) focused on individual and
group portraits and character studies,
although he also produced landscapes and
seascapes. He traveled, sketched and
painted in much of the United States.
His portraits and landscapes hang in
many public buildings and private homes
throughout the United States.
Stone
began studying art at the age of
thirteen in Toledo, Ohio, with Karl
Kappes. When he was eighteen, he
attended the Chicago Art Institute.
Later he studied with Emile Gruppe, Paul
Strich and Ken Gore in Glouchester,
Massachusetts.
Although
recognized at an early age as a talented
painter (selected as one of the city’s
outstanding young artists by The
Toledo News Bee in 1922), Stone
doubted that he would be able to support
himself solely through his art. In
pursuit of other career opportunities he
found employment in Chicago, and later
in New York City, where he became a
commercial artist. At that time he also
worked at the New York Stock Exchange
and appeared as an actor on Broadway.
After this, Stone was employed in sales
at a San Francisco television station
and, later still, opened an advertising
agency in Toledo. The majority of his
vocational career was spent in sales and
marketing with Toledo broadcast stations
before retiring in the 1970’s to
concentrate on his avocational passion.
As an
artist, Stone had many solo exhibitions:
he exhibited work in The Toledo Museum
of Art; in numerous Toledo Area
Artists exhibits; in National Bank
exhibits and Port of Toledo
shows. He was a frequent award-winner
at these exhibitions. In addition, his
work was shown in New York City and San
Francisco, as well as in Rockport,
Massachusetts, where he spent many
summers painting.
During
his fine art career Stone was
commissioned to be the portraitist of
numerous prominent people: civic
leaders of Toledo, United States
military officers, distinguished faculty
of The University of Toledo and The Ohio
State University, corporate leaders
throughout the world and stage and
screen celebrities in New York.
The last
exhibit in Mr. Stone’s lifetime, a
retrospective, was held in the
Owens-Illinois World Headquarters
gallery at One SeaGate in Toledo. A
simultaneous exhibition of some of his
larger paintings was held in the lobby
of One Government Center in Downtown
Toledo.
Mr.
Stone was a member of the Toledo Artists
Club, a past-president of the Art Clan
and a charter member and past-president
of the Palette Club, both of Toledo.
20 North
Gallery will be welcoming friends and
collectors at the Free Public Reception
on Thursday, August 26th, from 6
- 9p.m., as part of the Art Walk
Downtown Gallery Hop. Visitors to 20
North will enjoy light refreshments and
the opportunity to meet and speak with
Walter Chapman and the family of the
late Ruskin Stone.
During
the reception, Mr. Chapman will offer a
watercolor demonstration to 20 North
Gallery visitors. Through a donation by
360ipt.com, Mr. Chapman’s demonstration
will be videotaped and archived for
posterity. “Walter Chapman represents
the remaining leaders of Ohio’s
mid-to-late-century art scene—for this
reason it is important to record for
history the work, ideas and inspirations
of artists such as Walter for future
generations,” states Peggy Grant, 20
North Gallery Art Director.
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