Charles Baskerville Jr. Oil Painting "Stair in my Sicilian House," 1933
Item Details
Charles Baskerville, Jr. (American, 1896–1994)
Stair in my Sicilian House, 1933
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right and to verso
Titled and dated to the verso
Charles Baskerville Jr. enrolled in architecture at Cornell University and became the art director of the university’s yearbook and magazine, The Cornell University Widow. While in the hospital after being injured in combat during WWI, Baskerville made sketches of his comrades that were later published Scribner’s Magazine. He contributed to The New Yorkerunder the pseudonym, “Top Hat,” which garnered him portrait and mural commissions. During his military service in World War II, Baskerville traveled abroad as the official portrait painter of the United States Air Force. He created over sixty portraits of officers and soldiers that are currently on permanent display at the Pentagon. Paintings by Charles Baskerville Jr. are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Condition
- wear and wood worm holes to frame; staining to matting; minor staining and loss to outer margins of composition; cracking, flaking and loss towards center of composition; wear, staining and discoloration to verso.
Dimensions
- measures frame; sight measures 17.5" W x 23.5" H.
- Item not examined outside of mounting.
Item #
ITMG776713
