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| Born in Philadelphia, James Chillman settled in Houston, Texas and became a landscape painter, art teacher, art historian, and architect. He attended public schools in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship, earning a BFA degree in architecture in 1913 and a master's degree in 1914. From 1914 to 1916, he taught drawing and watercolor classes at the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers were Walter Dawson and sculptor Herbert Everett.
In 1916, Chillman moved to Houston where he had been hired an instructor at Rice Institute in the architecture department. From 1919 to 1922, he traveled in Europe on an architecture fellowship and then returned to Houston to begin a fifty-year career as a professor at Rice Institute. In 1924, he was appointed the first director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and held that position until 1953.
As a fine artist, he did landscape paintings, usually in watercolor. He also served as President of the Southern States Art League from 1939 to 1947, and was president of the Texas Fine Arts Association.
Exhibition venues included the University of Pennsylvania, Houston Art League, American Academy in Rome, Texas Artists Exhibition, San Antonio Art League, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Southern States Art League.
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John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists" |
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