Frank Tolles Chamberlin

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

Frank Tolles Chamberlin (March 10, 1873 – July 24, 1961) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, and art teacher.

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 MacDowell.

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.

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  2. ^ "Frank Tolles Chamberlin, Pasadena". www.publicartinla.com.
  3. ^ "The Redfern Gallery - Frank Tolles Chamberlin". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  4. ^ "Tolles Chamberlin". Olympedia. Retrieved August 8, 2020.