Kenneth Milton Chapman

Kenneth M. "Chap" Chapman (1875–1968) was an art historian, arts administrator, anthropologist, writer, teacher, and researcher of Native American art and culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His mother, who had studied art, trained him to draw. His father, John M. Chapman, was in the farm implement business.

In 1923, he founded the Indian Arts Fund, which in 1965 was merged into the School of American Research (now the School for Advanced Research) in Santa Fe.

In 1929 He published Nazareth about Biblical history and before his death had been completing work on Pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo and his memoirs.

He received three honorary doctorates for his work in the field of Indian arts and crafts:

Chapman was interviewed for the Archives of American Art on December 5, 1963, where he discussed his background, his interest in Native American art, and his involvement with the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and 1940s. Chapman married Katherine "Kate" Muller. After their births, Kate designed and renovated adobe houses.

He died on February 23, 1968, in Santa Fe.