Artist Biography

Charles Chapel JUDSON
1864 - 1946

Charles Chapel Judson was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 15, 1864. He was raised and educated in Kansas City. In 1888 he sailed to Europe for two years of art study in Munich and Paris. Upon returning to the United States, he settled in Oakland. He ferried daily to San Francisco to study with Arthur Mathews at the School of Design. In 1898 he replaced Mathews as head of the school and continued to teach there for about ten years. In 1904 he married the daughter of Carmel artist Sydney Yard and began spending summers on the Monterey Peninsula. Judson was instrumental in forming the art department at University of California in Berkeley and was head of that school from 1902-23. After a fire destroyed their Berkeley home in 1926, he and his wife moved to the Monterey Peninsula. Judson contributed greatly both as an educator and an artist before his death in Carmel on November 4, 1946. His lyrical landscapes of California qualify him as one of the state's finest painters of his time. Member: San Francisco Art Ass'n; Bohemian Club; Carmel Art Ass'n. Exhibited: San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1891-1913; World's Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; California Midwinter Expo, 1894; Oakland Industrial Expo, 1896; Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco), 1896-97; Del Monte Art Gallery (Monterey), 1907-12; Golden Gate International Expo, 1939. Works held: De Young Museum; Monterey Peninsula Museum; Natural History Museum, Golden Gate Park (dioramas).

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