Bright impressionist oil on canvas painting by Charles Apt, signed "Apt" in the lower left. Titled "The Paddock" featuring several men and their horses in the countryside. Charles Apt is known for Horse-racing genre, figure, landscape. Born and raised in New York City, Charles Apt became a painter in contemporary realist style. He has also been an art educated with teaching positions at the National Academy of Design and The Art Students' League of New York. His work includes still lifes, nudes, portraits, beach scenes, landscapes, interiors, musician figures and horses including a series of thoroughbred paintings exhibited at the Aqueduct Race Track. An exhibition at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga resulted in "Best of Show" award for his painting "The Railbirds". He also did a portrait of Prince Rainier of Monaco. Early in his career, Charles Apt was an illustrator and then spent two years traveling in Europe before returning to New York to continue painting. Later he held his first gallery showing in New York and then had a one-man-show at the Aqueduct Gallery. Later, Charles took his family to Europe for two summers in preparation for a "one-man-show" at the Grand Central Gallery in New York City of the life and people of Portugal. Apt received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute. Influential to his early artistic development were his grandfather Sam Lumiere, a well known portrait photographer, and his mother, Tami Apt, a fashion and jewelry designer. Among his awards, are the Benjamin Altman Award from The National Academy of Design; Franklin B Williams Award and Ject-Key Prize from the Salmagundi Club; Bronze Medal from the American Watercolor Society; Sutherland prize from the National Arts Club; and Best of Show Award from the Saratoga Museum. He was elected Academician of the National Academy, and his work has appeared in numerous art books and publications such as "Arts Magazine" and "American Artist". He is profiled in "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who in the World" and "Who's Who in American Art". After many years in New York City he established a new studio in Los Angeles, where he now resides and works. Overall size: 20 x 23 3/4 in. Sight size: 10 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.