James chapin artist biography

          James Ormsbee Chapin (9 July – 12 July ) was an American painter and illustrator....

          James Ormsbee Chapin was an American painter and illustrator.

        1. Chapin was born in West Orange, New Jersey in and studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League and abroad at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium.
        2. James Ormsbee Chapin (9 July – 12 July ) was an American painter and illustrator.
        3. Biography.
        4. Painter and illustrator James Chapin was born in in West Orange, NJ. He attended the Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York.

          5. Jim Chapin

          American jazz drummer

          For the American Olympic speed skater, see Jim Chapin (speed skater).

          Musical artist

          James Forbes Chapin (CHAY-pin) (July 23, 1919 – July 4, 2009) was an American jazz drummer and the author of books about jazz drumming.

          He was the author of several albums (later converted to CDs) on jazz drumming, as well as 2 CDs entitled Jim Chapin: Songs, Solos, Stories (Vols. 1 and 2). He is in the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame and was posthumously inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2011.[1]

          Career

          Chapin was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Abigail Forbes and painter James Ormsbee Chapin.[2] He did not begin playing the drums until he was 18 years old, after being inspired by drummer Gene Krupa.

          He left Bard College in early 1938 after skipping classes regularly in order to obey a massive compulsion to batter a set of drums that a classmate had left set up in the gymnasium. He was a student of Sa