biografia di Robert Winthrop CHANLER (1872-1930)

Birth place: New York, NY

Death place: Woodstock, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, muralist, designer

Studied: Académie Julian, Paris, 1894-95; …cole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with Gérôme and Alexandre Falguière; Mariano Benlliure, Rome

Exhibited: SNBA, 1896; Salon d'Automne, 1905 (screen, Giraffes"); Salon d'Art Decoratif, 1912 (screen, "Underwater Battle"); Armory Show, NYC, 1913 (his screens stood in the entrance corridor to the show); WMAA, 1918-1927; PAFA, 1921-22; Valentine Gall., NYC, 1929 (portraits) "

Member: New York Arch. Lg., 1914; Nat. Soc. Mural Painters; Soc. Independent Artists; Woodstock AA

Work: MMA; Luxembourg Mus., Paris; Woodstock AA (Parody of Fauve Painters in the Armory Show")"

Comments: Descended from Governor Winthrop of Mass., Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch governor of New York, and Robert Livingston, a drafter of the Declaration Independence. About the turn of the century, began painting large wall panels and eclectic, decorated screens. His most famous work was "Giraffes," 1905.

Sources: WW29; Woodstock's Art Heritage, 70-71; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 89; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 329; Woodstock AA