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Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
...Silent Enemy (Burden-Chanler). Every schoolboy knows that the Indian has not yet quite vanished from the forests of the continent that was his. But no schoolbook, museum or government bureau will ever preserve the vestigial red man as this picture does. Few professionals could have made such a picture, nor could they quite destroy it with commercial cutting and retouching after the effort and money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast...
...Richard Chanler Aldrich '31, of Barrywn, New York...
...Robert Chanler Aldrich '31, of Barrytown, New York...
...pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs up the stairs, round the walls of the yellow dining room stalks a procession of tall Mexican goddesses with bird heads. Night after night these rooms were filled with the intelligentsia, the talking, drinking, reciting, bright people of an inner world, while Bob Chanler sat on the floor, disheveled and benign like Praxiteles' Zeus...