Charles Shepard Chapman (June 2, 1879 – December 15, 1962) was an American painter, perhaps best remembered for his landscape of the Grand Canyon at the American Museum of Natural History.

[2] He studied at the New York School of Art, under the mentor-ship of Walter Appleton Clark and William Merritt Chase.

[3] He also studied at the Ogdensburg Free Academy and Pratt Institute, and taught at the Art Students League.

[2] Around 1910, Chapman moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he maintained his home and studio[4] and ran a school teaching illustration for a few years with Harvey Dunn.

[5] In the 1930s and 1940s, Chapman also taught art intermittently in his hometown of Morristown.