Biography
Samuel V. Chamberlain (b. Cresco, Iowa, USA 1895 - d. Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA 1975) first studied archiecture at the School of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston but became a printmaker, photographer, teacher and author who occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Phineas Beck. During the First World War he was in France and in 1924 he was living in Paris where he learnt lithography with Gaston Dorfinant and etching and drypoint with Edouard Léon publishing his first etching in 1925. In 1927, he studied drypoint with Malcolm Osborne (1880-1963) at the Royal College of Art in London. His work is held in many museums in America and the British Museum.
