ARTIST: Charles Abel Corwin (New York, California, Illinois, 1858 - 1938)
NAME: Landscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Some paint losses (mostly in upper left quadrant along left edge). No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 30 x 24 inches / 76 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 34 x 27 inches / 86 x 68 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
A muralist, painter, and lithographer, Charles Corwin was born in Newburgh, New York, and most of his active career was in New York City, although he spent much time in Chicago where he taught at the Art Institute and was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists. He also was in Boston and in San Francisco in 1916.Corwin began his art studies in New York City, and then studied in Munich with Frank Duveneck and for some time adopted the Munich Style of painting, which was a heavy palette and dark tones. However, his fine-art work later in his career became lighter, and his subjects were landscapes, seascapes, and animals.His specialty was museum murals, and in the late 19th century and early 20th, he was also an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1903, he became a habitat preparator at the Field Museum, completing about 80 of the museum habitat groups of mammals, birds, and prehistoric people and animals. One of his projects was a series of large mural paintings of trees and plants, many of exotic species, as they appeared in their natural conditions. He belonged to the Chicago Society of Artists, the Salmagundi Club and the Bronx Artist Guild. Corbin's work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1900) where he won a prize, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art between 1901 and 1906, the Chicago Society of Artists, the Boston Art Club (1906-07), the California Artists, Golden Gate Memorial Museum (1916), the San Francisco Art Association, and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (1916).Corwin was also part of the staff with E. Pierpont that painted the Cyclorama of Custer's Last Fight for the Boston Cyclorama Company in 1888.He died at age 81 in January, 1938 at his home at 1423 Hyde Park Boulevard in Hyde Park, Illinois. In his obituary relative to his work at the Field Museum, it was written: "His work included scenes from every continent and landscapes and seascapes of the earth as it is today and as it was millions of years ago. In addition to more than eighty backgrounds for groups, he painted a series of large murals of exotic plants and trees for the walls of the Hall of Plant Life. His technique produced realistic results, which have been admired by visitors to the museum."