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#pharmaceuticals are now ten times what they were ten years ago. ...’
‘America the Provider - Medicine'
National City Bank of New York
Dec. 1948
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesChapin #healthcare #BigPharma #Citibank #mensfashion #womensfashion #1940s

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#DECEMBER 1948
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‘Painting by #JamesChapin [1887-1975]...“Well Again”’
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #mensfashion #womensfashion #1940s
‘The United States is “the corner pharmacy at the crossroads of the world.”...Our foreign shipments of medicinals and ➡️

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1 year ago
The simple background may indicate that the singer posed for the artist in his studio, but it doesn't really matter ... because the singer's uplifted head, eyes, and parted lips, suggests her being in her own time and space with her focused spirituality and devotion to music. She stands alone, bathed in a sunlit glow, her eyes lifted heavenward, her hands gently clasped in front of her pink satin dress. Her hair is cut like a flapper's, short and pert, and her face has the rounded innocence of a cherub. Her name is Ruby, and she is singing. Her last name is Greene. Throughout her life, it was misspelled in books, newspapers, even on her portrait at the Norton Museum of Art. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1909, Ruby intersected with some of the 1900's most important cultural eras and personalities over a 6 decade career. She recorded for RCA, appeared in concerts, sang on radio, acted in a soap opera, even made a commercials. At 19, as a singer of spiritual songs with The Hall Johnson’s Negro Chorus in Manhattan, her life changed when white New Jersey painter James Ormsbee Chapin painted this wonderful portrait from observation. Chapin’s attention to detail, deep shadows, and strong highlights create a stage-like setting. Light plays an important, almost spiritual role in this painting. Ruby’s hand placement possibly refers to her classical vocal training; as singers used to be trained to hold their hands in positions like this. Throughout the following decades, Chapin's fame grew to paint U.S. politicians, fellow artists, famous actors, and more, but he continued to paint black Americans and was quoted as saying Ruby's picture was meant to depict "the beauty of Negro music and the Negro people."

The simple background may indicate that the singer posed for the artist in his studio, but it doesn't really matter ... because the singer's uplifted head, eyes, and parted lips, suggests her being in her own time and space with her focused spirituality and devotion to music. She stands alone, bathed in a sunlit glow, her eyes lifted heavenward, her hands gently clasped in front of her pink satin dress. Her hair is cut like a flapper's, short and pert, and her face has the rounded innocence of a cherub. Her name is Ruby, and she is singing. Her last name is Greene. Throughout her life, it was misspelled in books, newspapers, even on her portrait at the Norton Museum of Art. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1909, Ruby intersected with some of the 1900's most important cultural eras and personalities over a 6 decade career. She recorded for RCA, appeared in concerts, sang on radio, acted in a soap opera, even made a commercials. At 19, as a singer of spiritual songs with The Hall Johnson’s Negro Chorus in Manhattan, her life changed when white New Jersey painter James Ormsbee Chapin painted this wonderful portrait from observation. Chapin’s attention to detail, deep shadows, and strong highlights create a stage-like setting. Light plays an important, almost spiritual role in this painting. Ruby’s hand placement possibly refers to her classical vocal training; as singers used to be trained to hold their hands in positions like this. Throughout the following decades, Chapin's fame grew to paint U.S. politicians, fellow artists, famous actors, and more, but he continued to paint black Americans and was quoted as saying Ruby's picture was meant to depict "the beauty of Negro music and the Negro people."

Ruby Green Singing by James Chapin (American) - Oil on canvas / 1928 - Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, Florida) #womeninart #portrait #art #NortonMuseumofArt #fineart #artwork #JamesChapin #americanartist #oilpainting #Chapin #womensart #portraitofawoman #NortonMuseum #africanamericanart

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