Ghost Valley Victory
This week’s cover painting, Ghost Valley Victory, portrays Augustin Stables’ Ghost Valley on his way to winning the $50,000 International Gold Cup timber stakes in 2006.
Artist D. Haskell Chhuy, whose artwork has appeared numerous times on the Chronicle cover, lives in Free Union, Va. She employs the rolling Virginia countryside in many of her paintings.
Chhuy and her husband moved to Free Union from Bedminster, N.J., in 2000. They settled on a home in rural Albemarle County because “I love the foxes, the foxhunting, the horses, the mountains and the dirt roads.”
Chhuy rides with Farmington, although she often goes out with the hunt on foot so as to take photos for her work.
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She attended the University of Massachusetts and then studied printmaking under a noted expert at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Her professional name is D. Haskell Chhuy. “Haskell covers the inherited ability, and Chhuy is for the support I get from my husband,” she said.
Ghost Valley Victory, an 18″ x 24″ oil on board, will be featured at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall Of Fame And Museum, in Aiken, S.C., Nov. 29-Dec. 31, in Chhuy’s annual one-woman show.
