Charles Baskerville (painter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Baskerville (painter)

American painter (1896-1994)

Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1896

Place of Birth: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1994

Profession: painter, muralist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Charles Baskerville (painter)

  • Charles Baskerville, Jr (1896 - 1994) was an American artist.
  • Baskerville was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of Charles Baskerville and Mary Boykin Shaw.
  • He moved to New York with his family.
  • He later studied at Cornell University, where he was the art director for the university yearbook and The Cornell University Widow, a satire magazine.
  • His studies were interrupted by World War I, in which he served as a lieutenant in the Rainbow Division and earned a Silver Star for gallantry.
  • While convalescing from a wound, he made sketches of his fellow soldiers; some of these sketches were published in Scribner's Magazine.After the war, he returned to Cornell, where he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
  • He graduated in 1919.
  • He wrote a popular nightclub column for The New Yorker under the pseudonym of "Top Hat", while also working as a portrait painter.
  • His art career was again interrupted, this time by World War II, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Air Force; he was the Air Force's official portrait painter and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Henry H.
  • Arnold.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.
  • He died in 1994, at the age of 98, in Manhattan.

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