George Chaplin

Chaplin studied art at Yale University in the mid-1950s, when Josef Albers was the head of Yale's Department of Design. Albers and his wife, Anni, both members of the Bauhaus school, emigrated from Germany to the United States during World War II. Albers was especially well known for his teachings on color theory and his abstract art works (which were really experiments with color).

Like Albers, Chaplin was also an artist and teacher whose works and teachings emphasize and explore color relationships. In the 1960s, Chaplin taught at the Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1972, he joined the Department of Fine Arts at Trinity College, Hartford, where he was a Professor of Fine Arts and also the Director of the Studio Arts Program. In 1991, Chaplin was named the C.S. Nutt Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Trinity College.