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Linda Hartough to Have Special Exhibit
During 2010 U.S. Open Championship
For Immediate Release
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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.
Linda Hartough to Give Live Interview
on ESPN Radio
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(t) 407-248-1144
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (February 24, 2010) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist (www.hartough.com), will give a live interview on ESPN 1280 Golf Talk Radio with Mike and Billy on Feb. 27 at 8:35 a.m. Pacific time. The show, which will originate from California, will be available to everyone for listening live at www.espnradio1280.com, at “Listen Online.”
”I look forward to the interview,” said Hartough, who exhibited some of her work at the PGA Merchandise Show last month in Orlando, Fla., including the 21st painting in her U.S. Open series, the 9th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif., commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association for the 2010 U.S. Open.
Golf Talk Radio, with co-hosts Mike Brabenec and Billy Gibbs, is a local golf-talk show covering Central Coast and Northern Santa Barbara counties. It is an entertaining popular two-hour show with listener interaction, tips, interviews, rules instruction, product previews, etc. The program focuses on both local and national golf, and provides a local spin on national golf events and stories.
This year marks 21 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships. Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. Each year, in addition to her original U.S. Open painting, limited-edition prints and artist proofs are available for sale.
Linda Hartough Studio and The Booklegger recently announced a new line of Linda Hartough signature gift items based on Hartough’s golf-landscape paintings.
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.
Linda Hartough to Display Golf Art
at PGA Merchandise Show
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(t) 407-248-1144
(e) sjsport@earthlink.net
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (January 12, 2010) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist, will exhibit some of her work at the PGA Merchandise Show Jan. 28-30 in Orlando, Fla. She will display the 21st painting in her U.S. Open series, the 9th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif., commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association for the 2010 U.S. Open. Hartough will exhibit the painting in The Booklegger booth, #3773.
“I look forward to exhibiting some of my art at this year’s PGA Merchandise Show,” said Hartough. “This is the twenty-second consecutive year to display my artwork at the PGA Merchandise Show. Every year it is a pleasure to talk with attendees about my U.S. Open paintings and my other golf art.”
Linda Hartough Studio and The Booklegger will be announcing a new line of Linda Hartough signature gift items based on Hartough’s golf-landscape paintings. Examples of Hartough’s golf-art products will be on display at the booth.
A drawing will be held for an unframed Hartough 2010 U.S. Open print of the 9th hole at Pebble Beach. Interested PGA Merchandise Show attendees are invited to leave a business card at The Booklegger booth any time during the Show. The drawing will take place Saturday, Jan. 30, at 2:00 p.m., at The Booklegger booth. Entrants do not need to be present to win. The winner will be notified and the print will be shipped to the winner after the Show.
“It’s not often that you have the opportunity for a world-famous artist to appear in your booth,” said Robert Kraut, president & CEO of The Booklegger. “We are honored to have Linda Hartough join us to share her art with the golf community. We also are excited about working side by side with Linda to create the Linda Hartough Gift Collection of fine products.”
Known for quality service since 1974, The Booklegger is the world’s largest distributor of golf books, DVDs, gifts and other golf-related products. The Booklegger offers more than 800 products and serves nearly 4,000 golf-retail outlets nationally and internationally. These retailers consist of on-course pro shops, off-course golf stores, sporting-goods stores and golf-specialty shops, as well as Internet sales through golf Web sites and golf e-commerce business.
This year marks 21 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships. Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. Each year, in addition to her original U.S. Open painting, limited-edition prints and artist proofs are available for sale.
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.
Linda Hartough to Give Live Interview
at Golf Club at Indigo Run
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(t) 407-248-1144
(e) sjsport@earthlink.net
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (December 4, 2009) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist, will give a live celebrity interview on GolfTalk Live Dec.12 at the Golf Club at Indigo Run on Hilton Head Island, S.C. She will be interviewed by Tony Leodora, host of the popular award-winning radio show of long standing in the Philadelphia area. The show featuring Hartough will be broadcast live from the Golf Club at Indigo Run from 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. EST.
“It will be a pleasure to share with GolfTalk Live listeners updates on my artwork and my recent special projects,” says Hartough.
This year marks 20 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships. Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill.
Last month Hartough joined Lucas Glover, 2009 U.S. Open winner, at a special signing event of a fine-art commemorative edition of her prints commissioned by the South Carolina Junior Golf Association. Hartough and Glover co-signed the numbered pieces, 276 in all, representing Glover’s winning score. Each print features a portrait of Glover holding the U.S. Open trophy after his victory and the painting of the 17th Hole at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, NY. The original oil painting, Hartough’s 20th in her U.S. Open Series commissioned by the USGA, was on display at the event. A portion of proceeds from sales will support the South Carolina Junior Golf Association, of which Glover is a graduate.
Hartough’s 2010 U.S. Open painting, her 21st commissioned by the USGA, is of the 9th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif. In addition to the original painting, limited-edition prints and artist proofs are available.
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.
Linda Hartough and Lucas Glover
to Appear at Joint Signing Event
For Immediate Release
November 10, 2009
Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(t) 407-248-1144
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (November 10, 2009) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist, will join Lucas Glover, 2009 U.S. Open winner, at a special signing event Nov. 11 of a fine-art commemorative edition of prints commissioned by the South Carolina Junior Golf Association. Hartough and Glover will co-sign the numbered pieces, 276 in all, representing Glover’s winning score. Each print features a portrait of Glover holding the U.S. Open trophy after his victory and the painting of the 17th Hole at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, NY. The signing will take place at 11:00 a.m. at the headquarters of the South Carolina Junior Golf Association in Irmo, S.C. Hartough and Glover will be available to speak to the press at the event.
The original oil painting, Hartough’s 20th in her U.S. Open Series commissioned by the USGA, will be on display at the event. Hartough has announced that 30% of the sale of the original will be donated to the South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation.
“I look forward to joining Lucas Glover for this special signing event,” says Hartough, whose work has achieved worldwide acclaim. “The South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation brings golf and its many life lessons to young people across the state, and it is my pleasure to help support this fine organization.”
The South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation has exclusive rights to auction the signed and numbered limited-edition prints. The proceeds will benefit South Carolina Junior Golf, a program of which Glover is a graduate. Glover, who turned pro in 2001, is a native of Greenville, S.C. and a Clemson University graduate. The mission of the South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation, established in 1990, is to establish the funding necessary to create continual new opportunities for South Carolina’s youth through education and recreation, as well as to maintain current junior golf programs.
This year marks 20 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships. 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.
Linda Hartough Commissioned by
South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation
For Immediate Release
October 11, 2009
Media Contact:
Sally J. Sportsman
(t) 407-248-1144
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (October 9, 2009) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist, has been commissioned by the South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation to create a special Remarque Edition of her 2009 U.S. Open Championship print, commemorating Lucas Glover’s victory. The special limited edition of the painting, which is of the 17th hole at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., will feature a pencil portrait of Glover with his U.S. Open trophy. The print will be co-signed by both Glover and Hartough. Glover, who turned pro in 2001, is a native of Greenville, S.C. and a Clemson University graduate. The prints will be available in December.
“I am pleased to have been asked by the South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation to create this special Remarque Edition of the site of Lucas Glover’s U.S. Open victory,” says Hartough, whose work has achieved worldwide acclaim. “The Foundation does a fine job of bringing golf and its many life lessons to young people across the state.”
The mission of the South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation is to establish the funding necessary to continually create new opportunities for South Carolina’s youth through education and recreation, as well as to maintain current junior golf programs.
“For many years Linda Hartough has been a great friend to our South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation,” says Happ Lathrop, executive director of the Foundation. “We are proud and humbled that Hartough, arguably the greatest golf-landscape artist in the world, considers us a friend and teammate.”
This year marks 20 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships.
Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. This year’s rendering was of the 17th hole at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., site of Lucas Glover’s triumph.
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.
Linda Hartough Celebrates 20 Years
of U.S. Open Commemorative Paintings
For Immediate Release
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Sally J. Sportsman
Director of Media & Public Relations
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (August 18, 2009) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist, this year celebrates 20 years since she first was commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association to create official paintings and prints of the United States Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual, official paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships.
“It is a privilege and a pleasure to have been selected to do the official paintings and prints at the U.S. Open each year,” says Hartough, whose work has achieved international acclaim. “I look forward to the opportunity to capture the beauty of many more future U.S. Open sites.”
Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. This year’s official rendering was of the 17th hole at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., site of Lucas Glover’s triumph. The just-completed 2010 U.S. Open Championship painting, representing Number 21 in Hartough’s series, features the famed ocean-side ninth hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Prints of this painting will be released for sale beginning Aug. 20.
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.
For Immediate Release
August 13, 2009
The Shivas Irons Society is proud to announce a new affiliation with world renowned golf landscape artist Linda Hartough.
Ms. Hartough is the only artist ever commissioned by both the United States Golf Association and The Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews to paint their respective Opens. Her original works are 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 Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, and Robert Trent Jones, Sr. The New York Times has referred to her as “the Rembrandt of the back nine.”
Linda has painted the official US Open commemorative image annually since 1990, and to begin The Shivas Irons Society’s offering of her work for sale, we are excited to announce that she has just completed her painting of the commemorative image for the 2010 US Open to be held at Pebble Beach.
Like all of Ms. Hartough’s US Open commemoratives, this one is already anxiously anticipated by collectors of golf art around the world. Because of her feelings about the Society’s connection to the same “spirit of the great gemme” that she seeks to paint, Linda has given the Society the exclusive right to display the painting and offer it for sale for the next ninety days, with a portion of the sale proceeds to be donated to support the Society’s charitable and educational activities.
In describing this stunning rendering of the 9th hole at Pebble Beach in fading evening light, Linda says, “I chose this view of the 9th and 10th holes because to me it completely expresses the Pebble Beach experience. I wanted viewers to immerse themselves into the total package - the sound of the ocean, the seaside atmosphere, Carmel, the beach, the mountains, and being in the bunker on the 9th hole and loving it all.”
The oil on linen painting (24” x 42”) is offered at $95,000 (framed 35” x 53”). The frame is custom built with corners hand cast from an actual branch of Monterey Cypress at Pebble Beach.
Please contact Steve Cohen, President of The Shivas Irons Society or Board of Directors member Richard Lees at the Society’s Carmel office to discuss terms of sale and delivery. (shivas@shivas.org or by phone 831.899.8441, or RL@shivas.org or by phone 818.760.7767)
Media Contact:
Steve Cohen, President
The Shivas Irons Society
POB 222339
Carmel, CA 93922
Tel: 831-899-8441
Fax: 831-899-8453
shivas@shivas.org
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