Charles Abel Corwin (January 6, 1857 – January 28, 1938) was an American painter and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...

. He was a staff artist at the

Field Museum of Natural History The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educationa ...

from 1903 to 1938. He mainly worked on the museum murals and the habitat background preparation. He also taught at the Art Institute in Chicago. In the 1910 ''American Art Annual'', he was listed as being based in

Haworth, New Jersey Haworth ( ) is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 3,343, a decrease of 39 (−1.2%) from the 2010 census count of 3,382, which in turn reflected a decl ...

.''American Art Annual, Volume 7''
p. 112. MacMillan Company, 1910. Retrieved March 31, 2016. "Corwin, Charles Abel, Haworth, N. J."

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