Milton Menasco (American, 1890-1974), Honor Bright

Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, presented in a carved giltwood frame with gallery plaque affixed at lower center engraved "Honor Bright / Royal Charger - Tige O'Myheart / Monmouth Park 1965 - Miss Woodford Stakes."

Stretcher size 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 25 3/4 x 31 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Peggy Augustus, Old Keswick, Virginia

O'Gallerie, Spring Premiere Estate and Collection Auction, Portland, Oregon, 2016, Lot 91.

Milton Menasco was an American artist who began his career designing posters and working as an art director in early Hollywood films before becoming one of the country’s leading equine painters. After moving to Kentucky in 1948, he focused on racehorses and stud farm scenes, creating portraits for prominent patrons such as John Hay Whitney, Isabel Dodge Sloane, Ronald Reagan, and Allaire du Pont. His most famous work, La Troienne and Her Foals (1953), was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Racing.

Honor Bright is depicted here at the Miss Woodford Stakes at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. The racehorse was sired by Royal Charger and Tyge O'Myheart.

Good estate condition.