Golfing Art

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Golfing Art
This unique and beautiful book draws on three hundred years of golfing art to present a stunning gallery of paintings,
drawings and etchings. Ranging from classic Dutch paintings of the 17th century through the works of the specialist late 19th-century painter Francis Powell Hopkins to pictures by present-day artists like Britain's Arthur Weaver and the controversial American LeRoy Neiman, the collection also affords a visual history of golf and its development through the centuries.
Here are sixty works by artists such as Rembrandt, van de Velde, Paul Sandby, Sir Francis Grant and Sir John Lavery depicting every aspect of the game and its most famous players past and present. Alongside portraits of Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones and Henry Cotton are landscapes of world-renowned courses in magnificent colour. Every form of art is represented: from an etching by Rembrandt to cartoons by Bateman and caricatures by Spy. Accompanying each picture is a brief... Tovább

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Golfing Art
This unique and beautiful book draws on three hundred years of golfing art to present a stunning gallery of paintings,
drawings and etchings. Ranging from classic Dutch paintings of the 17th century through the works of the specialist late 19th-century painter Francis Powell Hopkins to pictures by present-day artists like Britain's Arthur Weaver and the controversial American LeRoy Neiman, the collection also affords a visual history of golf and its development through the centuries.
Here are sixty works by artists such as Rembrandt, van de Velde, Paul Sandby, Sir Francis Grant and Sir John Lavery depicting every aspect of the game and its most famous players past and present. Alongside portraits of Old Tom Morris, Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones and Henry Cotton are landscapes of world-renowned courses in magnificent colour. Every form of art is represented: from an etching by Rembrandt to cartoons by Bateman and caricatures by Spy. Accompanying each picture is a brief description of the artist and his subject.
Bringing together for the first time in one volume many of the most interesting examples of golfing art, this book will be treasured by every golf enthusiast and countless others.
Phil Pilley, a former Fleet Street journalist and BBC sports producer, who has always specialized in films and programmes about golf, also won a US 'Emmy' for his film about Wimbledon, The Great English Garden Party, featuring Peter Ustinov. He is now an independent television producer. Vissza