Randall Davey (American, 1887-1964). Steeple Chasers Leaving the Paddock (Steeplechasers Going to the Post-Meadow Brook)...

Description

Randall Davey (American, 1887-1964)
Steeple Chasers Leaving the Paddock (Steeplechasers Going to the Post-Meadow Brook), circa 1947
Oil on Masonite
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower left: Randall Davey
Signed and titled on the reverse: Steeple Chasers Leaving the Paddock / by / Randall Davey

PROVENANCE:
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, California;
Linda McAdoo Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Private collection, Dallas.

We thank Kim Straus, volunteer at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary, Santa Fe, for his cataloguing assistance.

A photograph of this painting in the archives of the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary bears a caption in Davey's handwriting with the title "Steeplechasers Going to the Post - Meadow Brook." Debuting in 1883 on Long Island, the Meadow Brook Cup during the 1930s was run in part over the estate of F. Ambrose Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune and one of his era's leading steeplechase horsemen.


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