About the Sculpture
Cornelia Chapin was born in Connecticut and raised in New York City. Daughter of Lindley Hoffman Chapin (1854-1896), a Manhattan lawyer and Cornelia Garrison (Van Auken) Chapin (1865-1925), an actress, Cornelia Chapin was also a descendant of Supreme Court Justice George P. Andrews (Andrews was one of the judges serving on the highly partisan "apocryphal" court, which was in place in Tennessee between the end of the American Civil War and the enactment of the Constitution of 1870. The justices who served on this court "without exception, were bitter partisans" who "had all been Union men, and... took the partisan view of all questions growing out of the war". Of this group, Andrews is described as one of only two "who were men of talent, and were good lawyers", the other being Samuel Milligan. Samuel Milligan was a close friend and confidant of President Andrew Johnson). Cornelius K. Garrison (a merchant involved with the building of railroads). Chapin was also sister to poet Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle, whose husband Francis Biddle was the 58th United States Attorney General. Chapin's nephew was Schuyler Chapin, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
About the Sculpture Cornelia Chapin was born in Connecticut and raised in New York City. Daughter of Lindley Hoffman Chapin (1854-1896), a Manhattan lawyer and Cornelia Garrison (Van Auken) Chapin (1865-1925), an actress, Cornelia Chapin was also a descendant of Supreme Court Justice George P. Andrews (Andrews was one of the judges serving on the highly partisan "apocryphal" court, which was in place in Tennessee between the end of the American Civil War and the enactment of the Constitution of 1870. The justices who served on this court "without exception, were bitter partisans" who "had all been Union men, and... took the partisan view of all questions growing out of the war". Of this group, Andrews is described as one of only two "who were men of talent, and were good lawyers", the other being Samuel Milligan. Samuel Milligan was a close friend and confidant of President Andrew Johnson). Cornelius K. Garrison (a merchant involved with the building of railroads). Chapin was also sister to poet Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle, whose husband Francis Biddle was the 58th United States Attorney General. Chapin's nephew was Schuyler Chapin, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.