Exhibitions:

Fore! Images of Golf in Art

Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

Events

Fore! Images of Golf in Art
Saturday, February 4 through April 15, 2012.

The exhibition includes more than twenty-five works of art—photographs, paintings, and drawings by such well-known artists as LeRoy Neiman, Will Barnet, Tim Clark, Ray Ellis, Lucy McTier, Dan Rizzie, Linda Hartough, Frank Christian, and Philip Morsberger, among others.

“Through a wide variety of traditional mediums and through subjects as wide-ranging as Dan Rizzie’s depiction of actor Bill Murray in character in Caddyshack to LeRoy Neiman’s dramatic oil portrait of Tiger Woods, from photographs of legendary players to a painting of the storied clubhouse at Augusta National Golf Club, the exhibition explores and celebrates the history of golf, its inherent beauty, and its place in our culture. This is especially true here in Augusta, Georgia, home of the Masters Tournament and Mecca to serious fans of the sport,” said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art.

Related Events
Thursday, March 22, 6:00 p.m.
Fore the Love of Golf Exhibition Opening
Enjoy all the traditional trappings of the Nineteenth Hold—azalea cocktails, “Arnold Palmers,” pimento cheese sandwiches—plus putting greens and special art projects during the “Fore! the Love of Golf” party celebrating the Morris’s exhibition of the art of golf. Museum members, $5.00; nonmembers, $10.00. RSVP by calling 706-724-7501.

Friday, April 13, noon
Art at Lunch with Linda Hartough
Celebrated landscape artist Linda Hartough, who is represented in Fore! by several paintings, discusses her breathtaking depictions of some of the world’s most famous courses. Members, $10.00; nonmembers, $14.00. Preregistration required by calling 706-828-3867 by April 11.

Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte
DECEMBER 3, 2011–MARCH 11, 2012

From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Mary Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces declining or altogether lost through changes in our economy, environment, technology, and fashion.

She is a teacher and author whose figurative paintings have earned national recognition. A resident of Johns Island, South Carolina, she has been inspired in much of her work by the Gullah descendants of slaves, who number among her most prominent subjects.

Whyte is the featured artist at the Morris Museum's 2012 gala. The present exhibition of her paintings and sketches is accompanied by a book published by the University of South Carolina Press and available through the Morris Museum store. A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Kath Girdler Engler studied at the renowned John Herron School of Art at Indiana University. Her work is represented in corporate and institutional collections, including those of the University of South Carolina, Augusta State University, Southern Bell (now BellSouth), GHSU, and Walton Rehabilitation Hospital, to cite just a few, as well as private collections too numerous to mention.

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