By Paul Desmond Brown 1
Located in Bristol, CT
Framed Size: 17"H x 16"W
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (1906 –1982), was an Anglo-American polo champion and a member of the Guest family of Britain. His father was Frederick Guest was a British politician and his mother, Amy Phipps, daughter of Henry Phipps, Jr., an American businessman and philanthropist. He was a second cousin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His brother, Raymond R. Guest was the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 to 1968.
Guest was a member of the international team of the United States which won the International Polo Cup in 1930, 1936 and 1939. He was the only player in the history of the Indoor Polo Association with the top rating of ten goals. He graduated from Yale University in 1927 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1942. In 1934, he married Helena Woolworth McCann. They subsequently divorced in 1944. In 1947, he married Lucy Douglas Cochrane (1920-2003), later known as C. Z. Guest.
Artist Bio:
Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) was born in Minnesota and soon moved to New York City with his family. A quote from his biography:"Paul Brown told his host on a radio interview held in September of 1956, 'One day in 1904, I got 50 cents someplace and went over to the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden and saw 'fine leppers,' [a term used for jumpers] as we called them. At the age of 17, his family relocated again to Garden City on Long Island, where Brown had the opportunity to explore polo grounds...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Paul Desmond Brown Paintings