To wriggle-back in the early 1980s, painter Linda Hartough from Okatie, South Carolina is ronta about in art to places where he could make the mark. "I was looking for a niche, wanted to concentrate on one subject," he said. He painted landscapes-there must be a billion-and artist do them pictures of horses, portraits of people or their homes. "I do various things and found that doing things didn't get me anywhere." Fate intervened in the form of a golf-pro-slash-merchandise-manager at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, which saw Hartough's landscape paintings in the Gallery at Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1984 and commissioned him to create paintings of the 13th hole at the Club, which will turn into offset printing Edition.
People with only a passing knowledge of the sport may be aware that Augusta National where the Master Tournament of Golf (one of four events in golf) played each April, and those who have knowledge of insider are more likely to identify holes 13 as the most beautiful courses. This is the "Azalea hole," famous flowers that bloom during the week of the tournament. (Almost every golf courses have what might be called the "signature holes", which was very challenging for golfers or visually stimulating.) Hartough's painting was a personal success–he has been commissioned and then painted the hole three times by members of the Club-and it proved to be career-maker, make a golf course around the subject matter in 1987. He has painted the golf courses in Scotland (where the exercise should start) at the us open and British Open (two of the four other major), as well as on the lesser-known course where golfers have commissioned him to paint the favorite hole. Jack Nicklaus, the dominant player on tour, had seven old paintings.
There is a certain logic, easy in moving from landscape to portrait of the golf course, but on a practical level, it is not just a problem or add a new group of art collectors to a list or even trading one set of art buyers. The buyer Golf course painting–golfers or their partners, in a large size-not necessarily art collectors, though many of them have a lot of money as an art collector. "Golf is a sport rich people in the United States," said Hartough. "It is for the upper class. I have taken the niche in which buyers have money; not a conscious decision to target the rich people, but it just turned out that way. "
Horse owners and those who are interested in riding and Ranch may also be considered affluent, but finds that golfers Hartough customers a much better piece of art: "there are more buyers golf art. They show more appreciation of art and they have more money.
The price will be the original painting (24 "x 42" is the size of the indigenous peoples) is currently $ 53,000, while he sold the reproduction for unframed $ 225 ($ 650 framed) offset paper for lithographs (Edition sizes run 850-950) and $ 650 unframed ($ 950 framed) for digital fingerprinting "Giclée" (Edition size 100-350), with a higher price for the artist's proofs in both categories. The edition size is larger for the scene of the more popular, such as golf courses at St Andrews in Scotland and Pebble Beach in Monterrey, California. Hartough worked slowly, producing original painting just three or four per year ("you can't make a living as an artist Gallery if You produce it all," he said) and "ordered a couple of years out" with the Commission. Fed to studio time made frequent visits to examine the proof printer (Lithochrome co. in Columbus, Georgia), keep an eye on his Gallery (The Linda Hartough Gallery at Hilton Head) sells prints and paintings at the retail level, attend the annual trade show professional golfer's Association and between two and four major golf tournaments a year, where he met and sold by individuals (retail), gifts, and pro shop buyers (wholesale), and a trip to the golf course he's choosing or assigned to paint.