David Thayer Chapple (born March 30, 1947) is an American artist and former professional football player. He played as a punter in the National Football League (NFL) between 1969 and 1975.
Chapple developed artistic talents at a young age, winning art contests and awards from grammar school. While earning his degree at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Chapple worked in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History as a bird taxidermist, which developed his interest in wildlife painting. He started his professional career as an artist in 1970 while playing professional football in Los Angeles, and turned his attention full-time to these artistic pursuits after retiring from football in 1975.
Primarily a contemporary oil painter in the influence of the early California impressionist landscape painters, Chapple has won numerous stamp contests for conservation groups and various state stamps for California, Kentucky, Utah and Idaho. His lifelong passion for golf has translated into painting commissions for Jack Nicklaus, ABC Sports, Fred Couples, U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open, tour events, and various country clubs and golf courses around the country.
Further extending his artistic talents into sculpture in the 1980s, Chapple was commissioned by many corporations including the Chiron Corporation, DuPont Nature Center, and Ameriflex, among others, as well a life-size bronze of Florence Griffith Joyner at the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills, California.[4]
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^David Chapple Biography, De Rus Fine Arts 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2010-07-24
^The Painting Punter 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, Santa Barbara Independent, April 6, 2010.
^DatabaseFootball.com entry 2010-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2010-07-24
^Bronze Statue Honors Memory of Florence Griffith Joyner, Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1999
March 13, 2024
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