HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (May 27, 2010) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist (www.hartough.com), will have a special exhibit of her work during this year’s U.S. Open Championship, which will take place June 14-20 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif. Among the works Hartough will exhibit will be the 21st painting in her U.S. Open series, The 9th Hole at Pebble Beach, commissioned by the United States Golf Association. Hartough is one of the artists the USGA uses for commissioned work.
“I look forward to exhibiting my work during this year’s Championship,” Hartough said. “It is always a pleasure during the U.S. Open to see collectors of my past paintings and to meet new people interested in my work. Pebble Beach is a magnificent venue, and it was a joy to paint The 9th Hole at Pebble Beach.”
On display will be Hartough’s original paintings: The 9th Hole at Pebble Beach, priced at $95,000, and The 18th Hole at Pebble Beach, also priced at $95,000. In addition, limited-edition prints and other Hartough works will be available for purchase. Hartough will be present at the gallery to personalize prints with a commemorative note, if desired.
During the U.S. Open Championship, Hartough will exhibit and sell her work at Images of Pebble Beach, the fine-art gallery located in the retail arcade at The Lodge at Pebble Beach. The gallery opened in December 2004 to showcase current art and photography of Pebble Beach as well as historic images from Pebble Beach Company’s extensive archive.
“We are pleased to have the opportunity to host Linda Hartough, a USGA artist for so many years, here for her third visit to a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach,” said Tove Andreassen, gallery manager of Images of Pebble Beach. “This will be the first U.S. Open for which Pebble Beach has had its own gallery, Images of Pebble Beach, which, in addition to showcasing Linda’s current painting of the 9th hole commissioned for this year’s 2010 U.S. Open Championship, will offer other of her works of Pebble Beach Golf Links to the anticipated delight of her devoted fans and U.S. Open spectators.”
About Linda Hartough
This year marks 21 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of U.S. Open venues. Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
A confirmed artist since childhood, early in her career Hartough painted landscapes, portraits and horses. In 1984, Augusta National Golf Club commissioned her to paint its famous 13th hole, an event which propelled Hartough toward specialization as a golf-landscape painter. Since then, her work has achieved a distinguished status, displayed in the permanent collections of such legendary clubs as Augusta National, Laurel Valley, Pinehurst and Pine Valley, as well as in the personal collections of such golf notables as Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd and Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Known for extraordinary attention to detail in her recreation of some of golf’s most beautiful holes, Hartough imbues her paintings with admiration for the scenery’s natural beauty and respect for the game’s history and tradition, elements which seem to emerge from the canvas.
Hartough is a Founding Trustee of the Academy of Golf Art, a professional society of golf artists established in 2004 to create an awareness and appreciation of golf art as a valuable segment of fine art.
For more information, visit www.hartough.com or www.lindahartoughoriginals.com.
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