Chanler, Robert

Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist. He was member of the Astor family and Stuyvesant family. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts, and there his most famous work, titled Giraffes, was completed in 1905 and later purchased by the French government. Robert D. Coe, who studied with him, said he was "eccentric and almost bizarre." Chanler rose to prominence as an acclaimed American artist when his work was exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show in New York City.