Cornelia Van Auken Chapin (August 7, 1893 – December 4, 1972)[1] was an American sculptor and animalier born in Waterford, Connecticut.

Chapin studied under Gail Sherman Corbett and later shared studios with both Genevieve Karr Hamlin and Marion Sanford.

[6] She returned to the United States following the start of World War II and shared a studio, that had formerly belonged the Gutzon Borglum, with Sanford.

Between 1930 and the early 1960s, Chapin exhibited in galleries in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Maine, and Paris,[9] and won numerous awards and prizes for her work during the 1930s and 1940s.

[11] Cornelia Chapin sculptures are represented in the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., and in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, among other locations.