"Nude on a Pillow" by Charles Shepard Chapman (NY/NJ, 1879-1962), white charcoal/pastel on artist paper mounted on board, COA on back, circa 1930s-1940s, framed - 15 1/2" x 16 1/2"  
 
Chapman was a painter, illustrator and art teacher, perhaps best remembered for his landscape of the Grand Canyon at the American Museum of Natural History. He studied at the Chase Art School in NYC and at the New York School of Art. William Merritt Chase was one of Chapman's teachers.  He was an illustrator for several magazines, including Century and Ladies Home Journal. Chapman was a member of Salmagundi Club and the National Academy of Design. He developed a technique he called water-oil, which involved creating his design in thinned oil colors floated on a surface of water and then laying paper on surface, absorbing the oil color. He was a teacher at the Art Students League in New York and at the University of Wyoming. Chapman was awarded the Saltus Medal for Merit in 1917 and 1940, the Andrew Carnegie Prize in 1921 and 1938, and a Benjamin Altman Prize in 1924.