A HAPPY SUBJECT by

ERWIN S. BARRIE FOR THE ARTIST Member, USGA Museum Committee • Gaud,:r once said, "All passes. Art alone endures." I would like to amend this state- ment by saying, "All passes. Art and alone endure." I think the happiest day that I can re- member was at the Yale , in New Haven, Conn., where a friend and I played 18 holes in the morning and after luncheon sat down at the ninth tee and spent the entire afternoon making a sketch of that famous 225-yard hole, which re- quires a I90-yard carryover water. Mixing the colors, making an accurate drawing and observing the lengthening afternoon shadows, I also had the secret pleasure of seeing other players make even more gen- erous contributions to the water than I had. Golf is a game with a great background of tradition and golf paintings, whether portraits of famous golfers or famous holes. Photo by Courtesy of the "Golf House," the USGA headquarters in Grand Central Art Galleries New York, is honoring the great names in A recent portrait of Findlay S. Douglas, of New golf by exhibiting golf por- York, former Amateur Champion and USGA Presi- dent, painted by Commander Albert K. Murray. traits of distinguished American artists. One of the first to be so honored was was so impressed with his clear, tan com- John Reid. plexion, his blond hair, bright blue eyes Then came the very attractive portrait and above all his modesty and boyish man- of Robert T. Jones, Jr., at the finish of his ner. The artist, usually a quick painter, swing, by Thomas Stephens and the stun- spent nearly a week on this portrait, and ning portrait of in his red poor Bob had to stand nearly all of that coat as Captain of the Royal and Ancient time. Years later he told me it was one of Golf Club of St. Andrews, also by Mr. the most difficult tasks he had ever been Stephens who, because of his many por- assigned. traits of President Eisenhower, has been There is also in "Golf House" a painting called "the Gilbert Stuart" of this admin- of the First hole at the Apawamis Club, istration. Rye, N. Y., done from the clubhouse ter- The mention of Bob Jones recalls to my race by the writer. mind very distinctly my first meeting with Mrs. Glena Collett Vare, the great wo- this great golfer. It was just a few weeks man amateur, has been painted recently by after he had completed the "Grand Slam," the distinguished portraitist, Frank C. Bens- and O. B. Keeler brought Bob in to meet ing. This canvas, approximately the same me. I had received a commission to have size as the Jones and Ouimet canvases, now Wyman Adams do a full-length standing ha.ngs in "Golf House," too. portrait of Bob for his club in Atlanta. I A particularly interesting portrait of

USGA JOURNAL AND TURF MANAGEMENT: JUNE, 1957 5 Richard S. Tufts, President of the USGA, Tommy Armour. has just been completed by John Lavalle, Of course, the full-length portrait of a Harvard classmate of Mr. Tufts. This Charles B. Macdonald with his caddie, by portrait has been installed in the main Gari Melchers, famous Virginia artist, in lounge of the Pinehurst Country Club, the card room of the Links Club, in New Pinehurst, N. C. York, is one of the outstanding contribu- The National Golf Links of America, tions to golf art. Southampton, N. Y., has become the recip- During the last ten years I have been ient of a most remarkably fine portrait of making paintings of famous golf holes Findlay S. Douglas, of New York, former throughout the country, including the fifth, Amateur Champion and former President fourteenth and eighteenth at the Pine Val- of the USGA, by Commander Albert K. ley Golf Club, Clementon, N. ].; the fifth Murray. In my opinion, this is one of the and seventh on the No.2 course at Pine- finest portraits ever done by an American hurst N. c.; the tenth at Augusta National artist and should add greatly to the im. Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.; the ninth at Yale portance of golf art beautifully displayed Colf Course; the fifth at St. Andrews Golf at the National Clubhouse which, as I re- Club, Hastings, N. Y.; the tenth on the call, also boasts a fine portrait of Charles B. West Course of the Winged Foot Golf Macdonald by Gari Melchers and a paint- Club, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; the seventeenth ing of the 17th hole, by myoId friend, at Gulf Stream Golf Club, Del Ray, Fla., Albert Sterner, a distinguished National and about thirty-five others. It is my inten- Academician. tion to do the eleventh at Merion Golf The Greenwich Country Club has, over Club, Ardmore, Pa., and then, of course, the mantle in its ballroom, a quite satis- decide on the most important holes from factory portrait of dear old Julian W. Cur- such courses as the Pebble Beach and Cy- tiss, one of the prominent pioneers of press Point courses, in Del Monte, Cal. This American golf; and for many years the collection which I call "Famous Golf Holes locker room of Boca Raton Club, Boca I Have Played," is on exhibition at Pine- Raton, Fla., has displayed a portrait of hurst, N. C.

GOLF ON CANVAS FROM EARLY TIMES by DEAN O. M. LELAND Member} USGA Museum Committee

HILE Dutch paintings. of Winter William St. Clair of Roslin, by Sir W scenes in the 17th century show George Chalmers, 1771, for the Hon- men on the ice with clubs somewhat re- ourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. sembling hockey sticks, the game, as such John Taylor, by Sir John Watson it was, had nothing in common with golf, Gordon, for the Honourable Company and there is no reason to believe that golf of Edinburgh Golfers, about 1825. was ever played anywhere before it was .William Innes, by Lemuel Francis Ab- played in Scotland. bott, 1790, for the Blackheath Golf Early golf paintings were oil portraits Club, London. of captains of golf clubs, in full uniform of their clubs, painted at the club's expense Henry Callender, by Lemuel Francis and hung in the clubhouse halls. The fol- Abbott, 18°7, for the Blackheath Golf lowing pictures are well known, have Club, London. been variously reproduced, and were pub- Francis Bennoch, of Blackheath, about lished in color in London in 1927 in the 1860. collection entitled "A Golfer's Gallery by "Old Alick" Brotherson, hole-cutter Old Masters," with an introductory text at Blackheath, by Mr. Gallen of Green- by Bernard Darwin: wich School, about 1835.

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