Lee Baskerville
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Richmond
Richmond, VA 23219
804-643-0869
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Lee Baskerville began his art career when he was only nine years old. A marketing company commissioned him to produce a half a dozen illustrations for a brochure. Only after approving and paying for the completed brochures was the client informed that the artist they had been working with was actually a child.
An avid outdoorsman, Baskervilles boyhood dream was to become a wildlife painter in the tradition of his early mentors, Robert Bateman, Paul Bosman, Guy Cohleach, and Keith Joubert. He often fancied the idea of living in a tent on some remote African savanna painting the surrounding wildlife. At age seventeen Baskerville went to Africa to take work as a safari guide and to pursue that dream.
After a year in Africa, much hard work, and numerous paintings, Baskerville, a Virginian, returned to the United States to attend the University of Virginia. He graduated with a degree in Art History. Although originally intent on being solely a wildlife painter, through education he expanded his repertoire into a signature style of Realism rooted in his classical studies of Sargent, Velazquez, Sorolla, and Zorn. Often compared by critics and admirers to these four past masters, Baskerville strongly insists that his style has evolved into an approach to Realism both thoroughly unique, and refreshingly modern.
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