Please pay special attention to his line drawings at the end. When I moved to Cape Girardeau twelve years ago, I fell in love with them. The sensuality, fluidity, and attention to the female movement was astounding to me.

Dr. Chapman's Statements

"My mother told me to do something worthwhile with my life other than being an artist. So I became a medical doctor. Throughout my education, art enhanced my experiences, undergraduate courses in the history of art at Southeast Missouri State University and Masters in Anatomy at the University of Missouri. A course in pathology gave me the opportunity to use watercolor and ink to record the images seen on the microscopic slides of tumors. In the United States Air Force as a physician, I had the opportunity to attend night classes in ceramics for two years at San Rafael Junior College. When I retired from medicine in 1997, Dr. Edwin Smith, art professor at Southeast Missouri State University, invited me to work with his sculpture art classes. I had the most fun I've ever had in my life."

"I had a wonderful life experience practicing medicine, uplifted equally by a warm relationship with patients and the experience of art."

Dr. Chapman recently passed away. He will be sorely missed by many!
 

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