Watercolor and whitening on paper, 1975, signed and dated at lower right, retaining Abercrombie & Fitch label to the verso, matted and framed under glass.

Sight size 17 x 27 in.; Frame dimensions 26 x 36 in.

From the Estate of the late Mr. & Mrs. Charles and Cynthia Salzhauer, Oxford, North Carolina

Abercrombie & Fitch, New York

Chet Reneson is an artist specializing in sporting scenes including big game fishing, duck hunting, fly fishing, and Bahamian scenes. He graduated art school in 1960 at the University of Hartford in Connecticut under the instruction Henrik Mayer (American, 1908-1972). Chet worked commercially for a number of years before selling his first painting in 1966, and has been creating and selling his work ever since. Antiques and the Arts Weekly described Chet's work well: "Actually participating in, or at the very least witnessing the events he paints probably accounts for the magnetic attraction between viewer and painting. When standing in front of a Reneson watercolor, you have no doubt that the artist has been there. Reneson's art forces the viewer to use his imagination. He omits superfluous details, making his viewer mentally fill in the voids."

Counted among his heroes are Homer, Cezanne, Wyeth, Hopper and van Gogh. An inveterate sportsman, Chet lives with his wife Penny in Old Lyme, Conn., in a restored 200-year-old colonial home.

Good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.