Chapman, Henry Thomas (sold)
Henry Thomas Chapman (May 19, 1897 - July 28, 1970) was a Chicago based commercial artist active in the middle part of the 20th century. Chapman was born in Fargo, North Dakota and studied art and architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduating he settled in Highland Park, Chicago, where is met with considerable success as an advertising artist. He married fellow artist Elizabeth Alice Hooper (1904 - 1970) c. 1928. In the 1950s, he relocated to Panama City, Florida, where he appears in local directories as an architect and draftsman. Both Chapman and his wife died in 1970, within a few months of one another.
Art Deco Prohibition view of Chicago as a mirror of the Untied States!
Chicago U.S.A. An Illustrated Map of Chicago Youthful City of the Big Shoulders.
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An extraordinary 1931 large-format pictorial art-deco view and map of Chicago by Charles Turzak and Henry T. Chapman. Chromolithographed in 'five gay colors', the view humorously embraces Chicago as seen from a highpoint over Lake Michigan, to the northeast. It is centered on the Loop business district, and embraces urban Chicago from the Calmut to Highland Park, and inland as far as Wheaton. Turzak and Chapman's Chicago bustles with life, from 1930s airplanes filling the sky, and fast boats on Lake Michigan, to fast cars, sunbathing beauties, and an enormous blimp. Everything is embraced with wit and charm, from gang wars to Wrigley Tower ('Built of 5¢ Chewing Gum'), to bootlegging. The map, moreover, argues in its form for Chicago as a microcosm of the United States, a message reinforced by the upcoming 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair. The whole is surrounded by an art deco border that defines Chicago, 'youthful city of the big shoulders, restless, ingenious, willful, violent, proud to be alive!' (more details)