Yellow Coconut

About The Artist: John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain was born in 1927, in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and, after serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time he began making flat, welded sculptures, influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets among them...