October - Golf

Sir William Nicholson. 1898. Coloured Lithograph on Paper. Framed and mounted. 

From An Almanac of Twelve Sports, published in 1898. Originally accompanied by the verse by Rudyard Kipling:

Why Golf is Art and Art is Golf,
We have not far to seek.
So much depends upon the lie
So much upon the cleek.

Image size: 20cm by 20cm
Framed size: 42.5cm by 35.5cm

Sir William Nicholson (1872 - 1949)
Nicholson began his training at Bushey Art School, moving briefly to Paris. His early collaboration with James Pryde - operating as J. and W. Beggarstaff - saw the production of various poster designs. By the mid-1890s, Nicholson increasingly shifted towards printmaking; a woodcut of the Prince of Wales’ Derby-winning horse, seen by James McNeil Whistler at the Fine Art Society, led to Nicholson’s successful collaboration with publisher William Heinemann.