Brown, Paul

Squadron A Polo Collection: Watercolor drawing of polo player Phil Brady on horseback, swinging his mallet, signed by the artist and titled below, "To Phil, May all your shots be goals" and signed by other players and members of the team. [With:] "Sway-backs Reunion", ink drawing of a cavalry soldier in uniform with crutch and bottle, giving his mount a drink from a saucepan. [And:] A Group of 26 pencil sketches relating to Squadron A (horse and military scenes)

Brown, Paul 13 x 12 inches; 8 x 10 inches; and sketchbook leaves approx. 8 x 10 inches, New York: ca. 1955. Two drawings matted and framed, fine. Sketchbook leaves, fine.

Interesting collection of drawings by the famed American illustrator Paul Brown, chiefly connected to the Calvary Squadron A of New York City and its polo team, based at the armory on Madison Avenue and 94th/95th streets. The first drawing depicts Locust Valley player Phil Brady in the blue and yellow Squadron A colors, and is signed by numerous players and friends about the drawing, signed and dated "Paul Brown, '55". "Sway-Backs Reunion" is a humorous sketch of an elderly horse and a boozing cavalryman, demonstrating Brown's characteristic energy of line. The pencil sketches offer an interesting glimpse of Brown's working style, and comprise: - "Remember": 21 drawings of fallen soldiers and horses, Our Buddies, The Lost Patrol, Last Call - Taps; "We must not forget" with Squadron A pennants ; a kneeling GI beside a fallen comrade. One drawing inscribed "To 'Phil' Brady, Sincerely, Paul Brown", 5 signed Paul Brown, 3 signed"PB", and 12 unsigned preliminary drawings. The sketch of Squadron A pennants demonstrates a visual continuity between the crossed sabers of the cavalry troop, and its 1941 redesignation as the 101st Cavalry. Its members fought gallantly in Germany and Austria during WWII. - Two sketches for the "Sway-backs Reunion": drawings of a cavalryman offering his horse drink from a mess kit, both signed "PB". - Three unsigned sketches: "Coming in for the night", a man at a gate with two horses and a foal entering; well dressed horseman in top hat with rider coming over a fence in distance; sketch of foal and two dogs at play

Item #237320       Price: $15,000.00