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Photo
Photos include Thomas Chapin's childhood and family, as a young musician, as musical director with Lionel Hampton, and in later and Trio years.
Art
Thomas began making serious collage art in the mid-80s. He was self-taught and inspired by artists like Joseph Cornell, and his own brother, Ted Chapin, an architect and collage artist. Thomas used store-bought tissue and wrapping paper, found paper and paper objects, cut-outs from magazine, rubber stamps, crayon and paint. The eight collages shown here were created in 1997, the year of his illness.
Video
Included are live and documentary clips.