SAMUEL BALDWIN PRATT American, 1903 - 1999 Winter Landscape, 1970 Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right. Framed. 26 x 39 inches (excluding frame) $200-300
ARTIST PROFILE: Samuel Baldwin Pratt (1903–1999) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and sculptor who became a fixture of the Virginia and Washington, D.C. art communities. Born in Unison, Virginia, Pratt underwent extensive formal training, studying at the Washington School of Art and the Corcoran School of Art under distinguished mentors such as Eugen Weisz and Richard Lahey. His work is characterized by vibrant, "plein air" compositions that capture the bucolic beauty of the Shenandoah Valley and rolling Virginia hillsides, often featuring riverbanks, farmsteads, and churches rendered with thick, expressive brushwork. Pratt’s professional reputation was cemented by a highly successful solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1946, where his entire collection of nearly fifty paintings sold out, prompting the gallery to request additional works. Today, his painting "Moonlight" remains in the permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and his work is frequently featured in regional American auctions as a premier example of 20th-century Mid-Atlantic landscape painting.
