HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (August 12, 2015) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist (www.hartough.com), announces that many of her fine art prints now are on view and available for purchase at the new Legacy of Golf Gift Shop & Museum, in the Shops at Sea Pines Center, on Hilton Head Island, S.C. In addition, Hartough’s original water color painting, The 18th Hole, Harbour Town Golf Links, is on exhibit at the gallery. Prints of this well-known scene may be purchased at the gallery. Hartough’s prints also are available on her website, www.hartough.com.
“We invite golfers and golf lovers – local residents as well as those who vacation on Hilton Head Island – to visit the Legacy of Golf Gift Shop and Museum,” Hartough said. “It is a pleasure to have my work on display and available for purchase in such a lovely setting.”
Hartough recently completed a new painting of the famed “Road Hole,” the 17th Hole of the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. A canvas giclée of the painting hung in an exhibit in the Old Course Hotel during the Open Championship last month. The new painting captures the memorable scene in springtime, with clear light and a dramatic sky behind the brilliantly-lit old town of St Andrews. The gorse, broom and wild flowers are in full bloom.
Prints of Hartough’s new “Road Hole” painting are included in the offerings at the Legacy of Golf Gift Shop & Museum.
About Linda Hartough
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 Rees Jones. Her work is included in the collections of the USGA Museum, in Far Hills, N.J., and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga.
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’s paintings of various holes at Augusta National Golf Club are prized by collectors the world over. In addition, Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990 – commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association – a 25-year series she completed in 2014, as well as her official British Open Championship series from 1990-1999.
Hartough has been honored with the Golf Digest Lifetime Achievement Award. She 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.
Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
407-248-1144
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