"The Meadowbrook Hunt Crossing the Whitney Fields" Dec 6, 1941 O/C by Charles Baskerville
$20,000
Art Sz: 20 1/2"H x 29 5/8"W
Frame Sz: 28"H x 36"W
Provenance: Camp Deerlands, Whitney Park.
Camp Deerlands is a historic 17-bedroom Great Camp overlooking Little Forked Lake within the 36,000-acre Whitney Park estate in Long Lake, New York.
Charles Baskerville, Jr (16 April 1896 – 20 November 1994) was an American artist.
He is described as "an old-school portrait painter... [who] never owned a camera in his life". Among the subjects of his portraits were Jawaharlal Nehru, Bernard Baruch, William S. Paley, Wallis Simpson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Paul Mellon, Richard Rodgers, and Helen Hayes. He once trekked through the Himalayas, by foot and pony, to paint a portrait of the King of Nepal. Apart from portraits, he also painted murals, one of which is in the conference room of the Joint Committee on Military Affairs of the United States Congress.