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Lab and Mallard
signed "BRiab=" lower right
watercolor, 13 1/4 by 19 1/4 in.
inscribed "To Hope + John Hanes from Thurmond Chatham + Patricia Chatham / Ronda N.C. 5 Oct 1956 " lower center
John Wesley Hanes II was an Under Secretary of the Treasury in the Roosevelt Administration and Chairman of the New York Racing Association after his second, wife, Hope, got him interested in thoroughbred horse racing. Richard Thurmond Chatham was a congressman from North Carolina whose first wife was Lucy Hodgin Hanes, John's sister. Both John and Thurmond attended Woodberry Forest and Yale.
Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Hanes II, Millbrook, New York
David G. Hanes, by descent
Private Collection, Connecticut
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