biografía de Philip KAPPEL (1901-1981)

Lugar de nacimiento: Hartford, CT

Lugar de defunción: New Milford, CT?

Direcciones: New Milford, CT

Profesión: Etcher, illustrator, writer, lecturer, painter, lithographer

Estudios: PIA Sch.; & with Philip Little.

Exposiciones: NAD, 1928-1946; WFNY 1939; CAFA; Kent AA; New Haven PCC; Meriden A. & Crafts Soc.; print exh., U.S. & abroad; retrospective of marine prints, Wesleyan Univ., 1979. Awards: Palm Beach AA, 1935 (prize); prizes, Assoc. Am. A., 1946; Meriden AA, 1950, 1955; SC, 1947, 1955; SAGA, 1952; Brooklyn SE, 1926; Marblehead (MA) AA, 1926.

Asociaciones: North Shore AA; CAFA; SC; Marblehead AA; MacD. Club NY; Cleveland PM; Philadelphia SE; Wash. WCC; Authors' Club NY; Chicago SE; SAGA; CAFA; Salmagundi Cl.; Pres., Washington (CT) AA.

Obra: "Fine Arts Prints of the Year," 1926, 1927; BibliothÈque Nationale, Paris; NYPL; CMA; High Mus. A.; Morgan Mem., Hartford, CT; LOC; MontcIair A. Mus.; BM; Peabody Mus.; MMA; CGA; Nat. Mus., Wash., DC; Wesleyan Univ.; TMA; Carnegie Inst.

Comentarios: Teaching: etching classes with H.B. Snell, Boothbay (ME) Studios, 1923-24. Illustrator, American Etchers Series. Vol. 4, 1929; Yankee Ballads," 1930; "Last Cruise of the Shanghai," 1925; "Lord Timothy Dexter," 1925. Illustrator, Yachting magazine. Author/illustrator, "Louisiana Gallery," 1950. Best known for his marine etchings and drypoints, which have been favorably compared with those of Arthur Briscoe.

Fuentes: WW59; WW47; exh. cat. & checklist, Field, Richard, "Marine Prints by Philip Kappel," Wesleyan Univ., 1979."